You are misleading. It depends on what the person has problems with. Chinese can be said to be simpler, because grammatically/syntactily it is simpler. Each sound is a distinct morpheme and there's a one to one mapping with morphemes and characters. Reading and writing is fairly simple if you're good with spatial logic puzzles. The language has a flow to it and easy for people with musical ability to pick up and the sounds more legato and sweet than harsh staccato.
Now, asian languages may be harder for those of a more barbaric and less civilized brain, but they're not harder for asians to learn.
Or you can just live near a big chinese population. Vancouver is excellent for learning and practicing cantonese. It also has lots of business ties with China/HK. Lots of programming jobs as well.
Learning a language helps you understand the culture.
Even if you never speak a word of mandarin when doing business, knowing it will help immensly in all your dealings. If you're dealing with HK, you'll need to know the differences between cantonese and mandarin. Don't worry, most chinese are more than willing to point out all the differences. Let's just say,in the distant past, los mandarinos had a stick shoved so far up their ass it pushed all their sounds into the upper two registers while the southerners embraced all experiences, including getting down and dirty.
Listen to lots of music in the language. Singing helps eliminate regional distortions to the language and you get purer simpler tones for your brain to deal with for developing tonal/rhythmic pattern detectors.
Play the music while you sleep, play movies while you sleep. Your conscious mind doesn't have to be actively engaged for your brain to pick up on flow, patterns, rhythm, phonemes/morphemes etc... That's all low level reorganization.
If you have access to native speakers of the tongue then when on your own just practice connectors. Nouns are easy to learn from others.
Unfortunately I have a tegra not omap. Still some work to be done for a native install on my tablet. I would however much prefer a working X11 server under android with full acceleration and multi-touch, nothing quite there yet.
I did no such thing. You really need to work on your reading comprehension.
Here's a hint, even though everything you see/hear/read is processed through your POV, all of it originates from someone elses POV and therefore needs to be translated.
Your downplaying of other's intelligence is just your puny mind's rationalization to protect itself in it's comfy confinement of other-ignorance. It's your choice which way you tip.
Human points of view orbit the truth. Hence truth is relative to one's point of view. What happens when one takes away the detail differences, what is the structure that is left behind? i.e., what is the formula regardless of the values of the variables?
Taking all this information, you do understand that your problem is that you are struggling with a definition that wasn't meant for you? One can only hate when they do not completely love themselves. This definition isn't meant for you either:)
You should however learn that definitions are POV dependent, i even meta-communicated this in my first post to you including 3 disparate pov's that you failed to notice were mutually exclusive. So much for your intelligence there eh?
I'm sure there's some geeks who worked on win8 looking to see if their UI work has added productivity/usability. I'm also pretty sure the only thing Microsoft is using as a measurement for 'worth-the-cost' is revenue. The worth of their data analysis will be whether or not they can turn the tide of bad press to get that revenue.
Actually, I am. It's a joke. Nobody should get it except for me, but it's ok to do things for your own enjoyment. Also, it shakes people like you out of the tree:)
I was elucidating a definition, I was not planting a flag and stating that as my motto. What is wrong inside of you that made you make such a dumb assumption?
Hate speech is not protected speech in many parts of the world, and really isn't protected in the US either because it pretty much falls under defamation and/or fighting words.
It is cut and dry when you pull your head out of your ass and learn to see reality. Go at least read a wiki or something instead of relying on your poorly developed socially acquired laymans (or god forbid self-derived) explanation of hate speech. Take a look at the racism and hate crimes that happen in the US. Doesn't hate speech impact the victims ability to continue their pursuit of happiness?
The problem with the US is it clings to freedom to be a loner, a miser, a hater, resource hoarding, socially irresponsible, freedom to commit crimes in private, etc... while they slowly lose the freedoms which are actually important.
Maybe once USians grow up and learn that other HUMANS aren't the problem, we're all the same, and that we have to share our toys (because resources ARE the problem), then maybe there won't be so much freedom to act like planetary ASSHOLES!
Hate speech is pretty easily classified by HATE against other groups of PEOPLE. How can you be confused by that? Public opinion doesn't affect whether hatred is being exhibiited.
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That's the problem, they tend to assume since we speak understandable english that we're culturaly the same. Then again everybody does that.
I should have been specific. We don't speak american english.
ah, someone who lacks both social and emotional intelligence.
of non-kickstarter projects that miss deadlines?
No, we don't. Please, no more insults.
We aren't talking learning english here are we?
It's about culture.
Just how old are you? It's like you've never seen a CRT in real life.
It helps with Lisp and abstraction.
You are short sighted.
Now, asian languages may be harder for those of a more barbaric and less civilized brain, but they're not harder for asians to learn.
Or you can just live near a big chinese population. Vancouver is excellent for learning and practicing cantonese. It also has lots of business ties with China/HK. Lots of programming jobs as well.
Even if you never speak a word of mandarin when doing business, knowing it will help immensly in all your dealings. If you're dealing with HK, you'll need to know the differences between cantonese and mandarin. Don't worry, most chinese are more than willing to point out all the differences. Let's just say ,in the distant past, los mandarinos had a stick shoved so far up their ass it pushed all their sounds into the upper two registers while the southerners embraced all experiences, including getting down and dirty.
Play the music while you sleep, play movies while you sleep. Your conscious mind doesn't have to be actively engaged for your brain to pick up on flow, patterns, rhythm, phonemes/morphemes etc... That's all low level reorganization.
If you have access to native speakers of the tongue then when on your own just practice connectors. Nouns are easy to learn from others.
We don't use american english in Canada, you might be confused by the people who just can't spell.
Unfortunately I have a tegra not omap. Still some work to be done for a native install on my tablet. I would however much prefer a working X11 server under android with full acceleration and multi-touch, nothing quite there yet.
Just give me X11 on android with multitouch xinput support.
Here's a hint, even though everything you see/hear/read is processed through your POV, all of it originates from someone elses POV and therefore needs to be translated.
Your downplaying of other's intelligence is just your puny mind's rationalization to protect itself in it's comfy confinement of other-ignorance. It's your choice which way you tip.
I can almost certainly guarantee you are wrong.
Wisdom grows when one realises the possible limitations of ones intelligence. (meta (meta meta))
Taking all this information, you do understand that your problem is that you are struggling with a definition that wasn't meant for you? One can only hate when they do not completely love themselves. This definition isn't meant for you either :)
You should however learn that definitions are POV dependent, i even meta-communicated this in my first post to you including 3 disparate pov's that you failed to notice were mutually exclusive. So much for your intelligence there eh?
BTW, those aren't insults, that's bait.
Keep your eye on all the shiny as she spins... take no note that she's falling slowly into oblivion
I'm sure there's some geeks who worked on win8 looking to see if their UI work has added productivity/usability. I'm also pretty sure the only thing Microsoft is using as a measurement for 'worth-the-cost' is revenue. The worth of their data analysis will be whether or not they can turn the tide of bad press to get that revenue.
I was elucidating a definition, I was not planting a flag and stating that as my motto. What is wrong inside of you that made you make such a dumb assumption?
Hate speech is not protected speech in many parts of the world, and really isn't protected in the US either because it pretty much falls under defamation and/or fighting words.
It is cut and dry when you pull your head out of your ass and learn to see reality. Go at least read a wiki or something instead of relying on your poorly developed socially acquired laymans (or god forbid self-derived) explanation of hate speech. Take a look at the racism and hate crimes that happen in the US. Doesn't hate speech impact the victims ability to continue their pursuit of happiness?
The problem with the US is it clings to freedom to be a loner, a miser, a hater, resource hoarding, socially irresponsible, freedom to commit crimes in private, etc... while they slowly lose the freedoms which are actually important.
Maybe once USians grow up and learn that other HUMANS aren't the problem, we're all the same, and that we have to share our toys (because resources ARE the problem), then maybe there won't be so much freedom to act like planetary ASSHOLES!
Hate speech advocates hate against people, not omg, i, like, so hate his nose.
Hate speech is pretty easily classified by HATE against other groups of PEOPLE. How can you be confused by that? Public opinion doesn't affect whether hatred is being exhibiited.