Chinese... And H1N1 vs Wondergirls... ahahaha

Tsk.

Chinese is the hardest language to learn

Why?

Take for example

English= 26 letters in it's alphabet, hence only 26 characters to learn/learn how to use

--note: I realized that english actually had 26 letters... erps--

Japanese= 43 basic letters, plus and kanji borrowed from Chinese, which isn't *that* much

Malay= Same base alphabet as English

German= 49 [?] base letters

Many other languages also have base letters, even Tamil

Some say Icelandic is the hardest to learn

I beg to differ

Icelandic is the hardest to vocalize

Because there are many sounds that are not found in most other languages, e.g. nasal sounds and plosive sounds, along with other more obscure ones

Also, the level of inflection is much higher than other languages.

However, even Icelandic has a base alphabet

But Chinese?

Noooooooooo...

Instead we have multiple words, each word having one or more meanings

And it is written in a way that cannot be broken down to make much sense, except in special cases

Hence?

Chinese can be said to have over 10,000 "letters" in it's "base alphabet"

Which means, as opposed to learning/memorizing a few symbols, which then can be combined in a way that makes at least phonetical sense, we now have to learn 10,000 different words all with different pronounciations to have a grasp of this torture called "Chinese"

Also, this base alphabet consisting of the aforementioned 10,000 plus words, have none which allows direct inference of the phonetical form just by looking at the word

That's why Chinese just plain sucks

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Now, back to my post

E-Learning

Bleagh

Just as bad

Tuition

Double bleagh

I found this video

I'm probably lagging, but I still can't stop laughing

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Okay going to find something else to do now