attempts at the Japanese larnin' comingle with it in incomprehensible ways
I still wince at the memory of going to the French embassy well over ten years ago to inquire about EC citizenship, certain that my French was up to a simple request like that, and finding my brain chock-a-block with Japanese words and nothing else. Floundering fish time. 'Wakari-- eunh, ahh, d'accord.' Also- the reason I had to give up on Cantonese was that my learning-Japanese brain insisted that all Asian languages /had/ to have particles and that the verb /had/ to go at the end. I'd say 'he' and then hesitate, searching for the particle that must-of-course come after a Chinese he, and not at all prepared to say the 'is' that in fact was what came next.
Hard, hard, so hard, yes. Tonkam get a move on. Though you can picture read Mr. Red Gate and figure he's a decidedly bad lot just from his expression.
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I still wince at the memory of going to the French embassy well over ten years ago to inquire about EC citizenship, certain that my French was up to a simple request like that, and finding my brain chock-a-block with Japanese words and nothing else. Floundering fish time. 'Wakari-- eunh, ahh, d'accord.' Also- the reason I had to give up on Cantonese was that my learning-Japanese brain insisted that all Asian languages /had/ to have particles and that the verb /had/ to go at the end. I'd say 'he' and then hesitate, searching for the particle that must-of-course come after a Chinese he, and not at all prepared to say the 'is' that in fact was what came next.
Hard, hard, so hard, yes. Tonkam get a move on. Though you can picture read Mr. Red Gate and figure he's a decidedly bad lot just from his expression.