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not worth the massive L of having to memorize thousands of symbols to read anything worthwhile instead of maybe ~80, and we could get that number down too.
I spent 7 years learning Japanese and 1 year learning Italian and I'm better at Spanish than Japanese. I have never taken Spanish.
smh latin dialects acting like they're separate languages
I swear every supposed major difference between words boils down to "here we only say how are you" and "here we only say salutations"
There is also the fact that it doesn't seem possible in such languages to have a good estimation for the pronunciation of newly-encountered 'words' (lexemes? I don't remember linguistics well enough to be precise and accurate here) without looking it up or asking about it.
水 and 冰 do not sound similar at all in Putonghua, and the same goes for other characters that I have dealt with so far. Not sure how it can be otherwise, considering the initial-terminal rules for pronunciation in Putonghua.
Okay, so,what's the rule for picking the right components? Sounds like this is the case of 'baa' being pronounced like 'aa', so the knowledge of how to pronounce 'b' doesn't help, and even if you knew the pronunciation of 'aa', you would still need to make a guess.
Apologies, but do we agree that this is much less reliable and clear than what relevant languages (some more than others - Russian, for example, is much less ambiguous in this regard) have?