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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Learn Japanese or bust. (What are we really saying ?)
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 17:29:46 EST
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In article <266@zuring.UUCP> dik@zuring.UUCP (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>To be serious.  I think it helps when the script is familiar.
>So for you to learn to read spanish is simpler than to read japanese
>(or russian).

Yes, but it's even easier to learn Dutch if you're English (as I know; my
father's Dutch) and vice versa, as my cousins in the Netherlands tell me;
both being descended from the same Low German.  Frisian seems to be even
closer to English.

What did/do you find hardest about learning English?  Having learnt (alas!
all too briefly) a couple of languages with at least a reasonably regular
grammatical structure (Latin & Greek), I'd imagine that English grammar
(such as it is) would be quite hard to absorb.

							Kay.
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