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I love music and have always liked to sing, but my colleagues said I was congenitally flat as a madrigalian.
I am guessing you are referring to Mardarin and Cantonese. There are actually many dialects of Chinese. Each quite different sounding (mutually unintelligible) The site I linked, describes 14 out of many.neurocomp2003 said:btw which version of chinese were you learning M or C?
I am not surprised you love music. There is a close connection between music and maths. (just look at the notation for music, time vs frequency plot). There are a lot of musicians who have an affinity for maths.mathwonk said:I love music and have always liked to sing, but my colleagues said I was congenitally flat as a madrigalian.
mathwonk said:i myself have had great difficulty learning to say even a couple of phrases in chinese without seriously insulting someone, although I grew up around and learned from many chienese speaking friends who were from malaysia and china. japanese on the other hand was no problem at all with virtually no practice; when i visited tokyo and kyoto everyone understood me immediately and i got around fine with only a few minutes study and a book.
that may have no relevance to what it means to learn to read.
cronxeh said:why learn obsolete languages and other inferior ways of things
study math and physics instead. those obsolete philosophical ideas of ancient Greece - who cares? Its not relevant today - won't be relevant tomorrow or hundred years from now. No matter what anyone tells you - its history, and only those who have no better knowledge of understanding of the Universe around them will study ancient texts of Greek philosophers
You have made some great comments in the past, but you obviously did not think this one out. Western Society is built upon ancient Greco-Roman ideas. Have you never heard of democracy?
Gza said:Knowing the average education level of members on these forums I'm pretty sure that he has a pretty good understanding of democracy. I'd be willing to bet that he learned of the concept in english; since many books on the subject are published in english. So i guess my question to you would be: Have you never heard of translators?