bennon

@bennon (7)

United States • Age 35

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How many do you know?

bodhisatya @bodhisatya (2384) • India 17 Apr 09

I have a tremendous fascination towards Languages. I know 8 languages apart from my mother tongue. That includes French, bit of Spanish, Hindi, gujrathi, Marathi,Punjabi my mother tongue Bengali and ofcourse English. Whats your...

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bennon Ancient Greek or modern Greek? I speak English, Spanish, Classical Latin, Esperanto, and Ancient Greek. I'm studying Chinese right now, hopefully I will be able to speak it passably well soon. I think most people learn better studying by themselves than in...

3 Jul 09

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Chinese a difficult language? Tell me why.

wingsanctuary @wingsanctuary (163) • Malaysia 5 Nov 08

have you learnt Chinese before? What are the difficulties you face when you try to learn the language? I'm a native speaker from Malaysia, so I'm kind of curious what makes the language so difficult in the experiences of those who...

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bennon I think the things that make English hard are a) the huge amount of verb tenses and their periphrastic constructions and b) the irregularity. Chinese does not have either of those problems. It compensates for its static words (they don't conjugate or decline)...

3 Jul 09