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bdonvr
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Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.
I’d gain a little respect for the old fella that’s for sure
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I have to imagine @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml wouldn’t approve of this at all. They’re cool people I’m sure they just haven’t seen this yet.
I think it’s more about the non-alphabetical nature of it. I’ve heard Korean script is quite easy to learn for example.
But I’ve heard it’s much easier once you have some level of fluency in the language. I mean children don’t intensively study Chinese characters until they’re already speaking at a level higher than most language learners get to.
They say for Spanish you need like 1500+ hours of listening and watching to get to a decent level. Chinese, it’s more like 3-4000+. Much respect. No cognates to fall back on… Can’t imagine!