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    Old Games you remember playing but can't remember the name of.

    Some japanese game on the ps2, it was very detailed and involved samurais. It was not samurai warriors, but had more emphasis on character. Hard to remember, had mounts too.
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    Poll: Is Chinese hard to learn?

    I also want to ask a quick question that I now throw into this thread. Is English a creole? It was mixed with Norman-French heavily, but Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese have up to 50% chinese borrowed vocabulary and people do not think they are creoles, yet English and Afrikaans are sometimes...
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    Poll: Is Chinese hard to learn?

    I read everything so far and learned a lot, thanks to talideon too. Can leave this now.
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    Poll: Is Chinese hard to learn?

    Think it is possible to use characters with English or Afrikaans? They are simple enough maybe too and it would be a funny joke. English may well get rid of all the old european stuff and become more Chinese like, or should we keep in the inflections?
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    Poll: Is Chinese hard to learn?

    I have read all posts so far, learned a bit too. Maybe Mandarin's "simple" grammar can make it quite hard with so much homonyms. A little morphological grammar seems preferred by most European posters, but then again it is relative; a Thai told me Chinese is easier for himself because there are...
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    Poll: Is Chinese hard to learn?

    Yes, but you have to admit it could be worse with European style grammar and all. I do think English isn't the easiest language, maybe for us we think it is but Afrikaans is even simpler, and indonesian is even more simpler, and chinese except the tones, signs,modal particles, and aspect is...
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    Poll: Is Chinese hard to learn?

    We will all be speaking it soon anyway. It isn't that hard! Yes it has tones, characters, and lots of subtleties but it has NO tense, NO articles, NO subject verb agreement NO case(not even for pronouns which English has),and NO irregular plural forms. Even simpler than English, which I...