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kelly_in_taiwan

Thoughts...

Jun 22, 2006 17:41

♥ I think I should try and brush up (and improve) on my very rusty Mandarin. Maybe my Mandarin skills might give me an edge when looking for work in the Netherlands (or anywhere else for that matter). Must set some time aside from my 日本語 study and dedicate it to some 中国語 revision ( Read more... )

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Re: random Japanese kelly_in_taiwan June 22 2006, 14:32:41 UTC

Hmm...I think you need just to alter the settings on the browser but I don't know if the PC you're using has support for Japanese or not.

characterguy June 22 2006, 12:49:13 UTC

私たち

Are the hiragana right here? :D

kelly_in_taiwan June 22 2006, 14:30:09 UTC

I think so...'we' should be watashi-tachi (according to my book).

characterguy June 22 2006, 15:53:51 UTC

OH! *blushes* I didn't get that you were saying "we." Forgive my presumptuousness!

kelly_in_taiwan June 22 2006, 16:18:10 UTC

Heh, no probs. :)

I don't think Sander would be entirely happy if I left him behind. ^_^

figgitron1 June 22 2006, 15:21:56 UTC

you're not showing off...
dutch is super easy. if you have ANY experience with german/english it will just flow in. i speak french and german and when i went there it was like listening to the two of them smooshed together with english and a weird lilt but some how totally understandable.
if you can handle japanese/chinese you can handle dutch.

kelly_in_taiwan June 22 2006, 15:44:41 UTC

I think my brain works in mysterious ways...

It's not that Dutch is hard per se. I just find it hard to be enthusiastic about learning it and I think enthusiasm has a lot to do with how much progress you make. Sure, I can get by on an everyday basis, get the gist of newspapers articles and have conversations with my 'parents-in-law' but I can't seem to get beyond that stage.

figgitron1 June 22 2006, 17:48:25 UTC

yea, maybe once you get there you'll get into it? i was totally not into german until i got there. after about 6 months i sort of became german with out even noticing it and now that i have not been there for years, it's hard for me to believe that i was that into it.

in anycase at least you will have people on lj who you can talk to in mandarin and japanese!!

nickamon June 22 2006, 23:25:24 UTC

Prik Khing prawn curry

Speaking of unfortunate names, my partner bought a vacuum press from a salesman called Hardick Parick earlier this year.

kelly_in_taiwan June 23 2006, 02:13:09 UTC

LOL! XD.