Why Is Korean So Hard? - BLARB
A totally different language for a totally different culture. If you’d like to take on the difficult but rewarding challenge of learning Japanese, I recommend you start with Marc Bernabé’s books Japanese in Mangaland and Japanese in Mangaland 2, or Japanese for Manga People by Maria Ferrer. To learn kanji, you can start with Kanji De Manga by Glenn
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9. So much of education is teaching people context. That is why it is hard, and also why it often does not seem like real learning.
Tyler Cowen • “Context is that which is scarce”
By far the most popular target of Chinese word phrenology is the word for crisis, 危机. There is an entire Wikipedia entry on the Chinese word for crisis, in fact, because dating back to at least John F. Kennedy, Westerners have loved to awe at the fact that the two constituent characters are “danger” plus “opportunity.” This is technically true in t
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So much of education is teaching people context. That is why it is hard, and also why it often does not seem like real learning.
Tyler Cowen • “Context is that which is scarce”
