[thechat] Shyness linked with Internet research

[Ben Dyer]

At 03:52 PM 7/5/2002, you wrote:

>On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 09:42  pm, Ben Dyer wrote:
>
>>> > phonetic alphabet - bad
>>>
>>>How?
>>
>>It makes for a longer language visually?
>
>However a shorter number of characters to learn

Sort of.  In English (and German, Russian, et al), we just line them up
together in a row.  In Chinese, they have radicals that all characters are
based off of.

Besides, Chinese makes up for it by having a ridiculously simple
grammatical structure.

<http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/english/chinese/learn/>

--Ben


Ben Dyer, Senior Internet Developer, Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com/

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