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Leave it to Japan to make reading like maths.
Once upon a time, Japan was looking at China's texts and thought "wouldn't it be great if I could write and read like that?" But poor little Japan had a complete other grammar structure than big China, and so it just didn't work out. Japan sat down and set up some rules and secret codes in order to be able to read classic chinese texts. And so Kanbun was invented, a system that would last for many centuries way over the Meiji Restoration.
Unfortunately, that day someone had spiked Japan's tea, and the rules turned out to be pure crack.
Or, like someone in my class said, it's like trying to solve a 10 000 piece-puzzle of a blue sky over a blue ocean.
Unfortunately, that day someone had spiked Japan's tea, and the rules turned out to be pure crack.
Or, like someone in my class said, it's like trying to solve a 10 000 piece-puzzle of a blue sky over a blue ocean.
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THIS IS MADNESS.
ALSO NO, ITALIAN IS WORSE THAN SPANISH.
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It doesn't help that my classic japanese final was three years ago and that I, in my unlimited optimism, decided that it'd be ok to forget everything about it ever since. BIG MISTAKE DUN DUN DUN FILM AT ELEVEN!WELL I UNDERSTOOD SAKURA JUST FINE SO THERE! D=
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TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS, and then we can return to this topic.
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Also, hey, la Divina Commedia is totally cheating, yo. I mean, I'm a native French/German speaker, yet I wouldn't understand anything from the 14th century of ANY of those countries. (that, and their spelling was kinda WEIRD =D )
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I can't understand Ugo Foscolo that well. Enough said.
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Heeee, this is why I study pictures~