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Can a tone-deaf person learn Chinese?
Obviously, Chinese (Mandarin) is the language to learn. Nearly 1/5 of the global population already speak it; China is all but guaranteed to continue to rise in global influence; and, fifty years from now, our grandchildren may well be wondering why we made them study a language as old-fashioned and difficult as English when they could have been studying something as useful as Mandarin.

But I'm tone-deaf: I can't easily tell a rising tone from a falling one, or (heaven forbid!) that a tone is changing from rising to falling. This means that I can't play an instrument, and I only sing when the noise of the vacuum cleaner will safely drown me out. I've always assumed that it also means there's no hope for me trying to learn Mandarin, but maybe I should ask some people who might know: can tone-deaf people learn and speak Mandarin?

Thanks. :)
2 Mart 2020
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What's easier in English?

I've always felt sympathy for anyone learning English as a second language - it's a nightmare of articles, determiners, conditionals, gerunds, past and present perfect tenses, and much, much more. How does anyone stand it?

But an italki friend just pointed out that the second person singular pronoun is easier in English than in many other languages. It's just "you;" without the informal/formal complications of "du/Sie," "tu/usted," "ты/вы," and so on.

What else - if anything - is easier in English?


8 Nisan 2017
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Недорогая Спажа! Сначала были вишневые деревья. Тогда, дукий нарцисс цветы на обочины и пустые земельные участки. И согодня я нашел нежную молодую спаржу, за половину ее цены в лыбое другое время. Поэтому я знаю, что весна здесь. Благодарю вас за исправления.
28 Mart 2017
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Как сказать по русски "oops"? Гугл Переводчик говорят "Ой!, Оп!, Ох!" В чем разница между ними? Есть разница?
25 Mart 2017
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Using Google Translate for Russian got me a big surprise (question includes reference to profanity) Is this why I shouldn't be using Google Translate as a dictionary and spellchecker? My intended meaning: I'm studying Russian because I have a lot of neighbors from Russia and Ukraine who speak Russian, and I want to be better able to speak with them. My Russian: Я изучаю русский язык, потому что у мен много соседей из России и Украины, которые говорить по-русски, и я хочу быть в состоянии гобоить с ними. Google Translate for my Russian: I'm studying Russian, because I have a lot of neighbors from Russia and Ukraine who speak Russian, and I want to be able to f*** with them. (Where f*** appears, Google Translate gave the common four-letter vulgarity for fornication.) "состояние/в состоянии" is not a word and usage that I'm very familiar with, but it seems to mean "condition/in condition to." Does anyone know whether it should be returning that expression from Google Translate, or this is just one of Google Translate's infamous vagaries? Thanks.
21 Mart 2017
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Is there an italki search function for Answers, (and/or Notebook and Discussions)? The Help Page even says to search Answers first before posting a question, but I can't find a way to do that (unless I go to Google). Is there a Search button somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks.
21 Mart 2017
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