Comments on: English speakers have it easy… http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2008/01/27/english-speakers-have-it-easy/ An American expatriate shares his thoughts on life, language, food, and culture in Taiwan. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: The Expatriate http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2008/01/27/english-speakers-have-it-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-8 The Expatriate Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:31:00 +0000 http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2008/01/27/english-speakers-have-it-easy/#comment-8 It's not a matter of how intelligent one is; rather, just a matter of how much time one wants to devote to learning it. For the Chinese, obviously, it's the easiest and most efficient way to order a dictionary for a language written such as theirs.<br/>Since all Taiwanese children learn to write using the same 11 basic strokes (combinations of said strokes create every character in the Chinese language), it's quite easy for them to look at the character, count the number of the strokes, identify radicals, and look it up in the dictionary. I haven't quite gotten that far, yet. It’s not a matter of how intelligent one is; rather, just a matter of how much time one wants to devote to learning it. For the Chinese, obviously, it’s the easiest and most efficient way to order a dictionary for a language written such as theirs.
Since all Taiwanese children learn to write using the same 11 basic strokes (combinations of said strokes create every character in the Chinese language), it’s quite easy for them to look at the character, count the number of the strokes, identify radicals, and look it up in the dictionary. I haven’t quite gotten that far, yet.

]]> By: Mommy Expatriate http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2008/01/27/english-speakers-have-it-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Mommy Expatriate Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:07:00 +0000 http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2008/01/27/english-speakers-have-it-easy/#comment-7 what.the.h. how intelligent does one have to be to figure all this shit out. geez.<br/><br/>by.the.way.love.you.mom. what.the.h. how intelligent does one have to be to figure all this shit out. geez.

by.the.way.love.you.mom.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2008/01/27/english-speakers-have-it-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Bryan Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:24:00 +0000 http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2008/01/27/english-speakers-have-it-easy/#comment-6 That is just plan crazy! That is just plan crazy!

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