Curious what other languages are represented here. Are you learning a new language? Is anyone here learning any endangered languages?

  • 33rdJanuary
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    3 years ago

    Well, “relatively small” being about 2k for causal speech and texting, and 3~5k for texts, depending on the type of literature. Luckily most Chinese characters are phono-semantic, meaning one side gives a pronunciation hint whilst the other gives a meaning hint.

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      Yeah it’s not nothing, but it’s way more manageable than a lot of people might think coming into it, myself included