Re: Questions for Woodstock
- From: rAzZbAr <glakk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 May 2007 10:58:00 -0700
On May 11, 3:10 pm, Уильям <thabilldo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mysteryrainbowx wrote:
Yup, that is me.... and it's my name in Russian that I use for my screen
name.
My 6th grade class learned to read and write Russian/Cyrillic.
Penmanship and all. We didn't learn the language, just the alphabet. I
got so I could read it pretty fluently -- it's pretty easy to read
actually since it's pure phonetic with all the letters always sounding
the same. But pretty much forgot it, so I'm half-guessing when I see
"william".
I used to be able to "read" Katakana. It's one character per consonant-
vowell combination. There are more characters, but not as many sounds.
Both are about as hard to learn. Like a couple of days... since I'm
only talking about a phonetic code, and not a actual language.
The fun thing is, that you can write English in either of the two
systems, and your teacher doesn't know what you're writing! Well, I
guess Mr. Svoboda knew, because he taught us. But I learned Katakana
on my own, out of a book.
Always wanted to learn Arabic, too.. but having a hard time finding a
book I like. The amazingly stupid thing is, there is no standard,
conventional international system for transliterating Arabic. Every
book you pick up uses a different system.
.
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