mr_shadow

English is a Germanic language just like German and the Scandinavian languages. Though the major modern language closest related to English is probably Dutch.

And yeah, it helps for sure. Once you figure out the rules for sound correspondences you can extrapolate a lot of words. E.g. if you know that "house" in Swedish is pronounced "hus", then you can infer that "mouse" is pronounced "mus".

I don't know. As a native speaker, I have a much harder time with Dutch. But maybe it's easier the other way around. Maybe the problem is that modern English is so Romanized, it's nothing like old Anglo-Saxon, which is completely indecipherable to me.

Lol, I'm struggling enough to get -myself- a job after graduation, so at the moment I don't think I'd be much help.

Oh, Have you graduated?

No, I graduate in August 2019.

Thank you!

Sorry 'bout the traditional characters. I live in HK, you know.

3 of my 4 chinese tutors came from taiwan when I was starting to learn chinese so no prob

Why can't you tell flow to put him on ignore instead of doing this?

Doesn't stop the trolling ? :hm

Then section ban him, people have been SB'd for calling people stupid and posting meme videos trolling is clearly far worse....

In your settings there's a tab called "avatar" where you can upload an image. Beware that I might get rejected if it's too large, so you might have to shrink the picture.

Okay, Thanks!

Oh please... like you'd need my help for that. VAK. :maybe

Waffles thanks! I took a long hiatus from the site so I don't rreadily remember these things, especially when I'm only at 1 section of the forum most of the time.

John, thank you for your kindness

Fuck you waffles I am a kind hearted generous individual Ying even said I'm a nice guy

1. Read Journey to the West if you haven't already.

2. Because the traditional building material was wood, there are almost no pre-Ming structures standing. The architecture of Japan is however an imitation of Tang style.

North Korea would invade South Korea, if they thought they could get away with it.

Reasoning asked that is I know this marxist who thinks because north Korea suffered 3/4ths of the civilian casualties, that they're the victims of western agression. He thinks nuclearization is a reasonable response to the joint american -south korean military drills. He also says that if the US withdrew , the kim dynasty would lose it justification for existing , and there would be a military coup against them.

tell ur friend he's a naive dumbass

Definitely, though I wouldn't have time to participate in it at the moment...

Also I feel like the quality of Chinese cinema has seriously gone downhill in recent years, but maybe that's just me getting old and not seeing the magic anymore.

oh that's a shame, I mean I have a basic general knowledge on how to improve the subtitles for American shows I seen but not enough to do that alone let alone everything else involved.

and I kind of agree, albiet I have seen any movies HK or mainland in the last year and a half

Barfield, Thomas (2010) Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. Princeton University Press.

As you can see from the publication date it obviously doesn't cover anything that has happened in the last 7 years, such as the killing of bin Laden or the U.S. troop withdrawal, but I thought it was a great introduction to especially the pre-moden era.

Ah I see. If you're ever interested in a supplemental refresher, "Games Without Rules" by Tamim Ansary is a brilliant read. The author is a Hazara Afghan with perfectly detached neutrality and his prose is crystalline. It goes through every major event since the rise of Ahmad Shah in a summary style.

His or mine?

You, obviously

First time out of an airport in the country.

You have a point

Only 8% of Chinese people are Communist Party members. The rest are just trying to live their lives in peace and didn't chose this system. You can like the people without liking the government.

Okay good to know we think the same and it's not me being ethnocentric

I'll fix it in a bit

well considering I only just started posting again, and after the posts in question which some precious snowflakes got all hot and bothered over xiammes already spoke to me so you're a bit late to the party

while I have your Intention, shouldn't you tell Saiyaman to stop posting deliberate flamebait, what kind of response do you think you're going to get for suggest a person should have been kerb stomped and put in a coma?

Attention fucking auto correct.

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Someone stepped on his shadow.

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