Greece vs Russia
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Indeed it appears lively.
Phenotypic Dai
The girdle of Venus
Pronunciation nightmare.
CCTV5 on my proper telly
It should be on all the streams though
It should be on all the streams though
Can you understand the commentary 100%?
pastieburt
Best team in the league.
This will be 3-2 to russia.
TrippyLondoner
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Greece appear to be attacking in this game every so often.
TrippyLondoner
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haha spoke to soon
Phenotypic Dai
The girdle of Venus
Good.
They were a fucking disgrace against Sweden.
They were a fucking disgrace against Sweden.
TrippyLondoner
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Come On Russia! 1-0!
I don't have it on very loud cos the missus/baby/mother in law are asleep next door.
But no.
Mandarin must be like Korean for us westerners!!!
4 years and my Korean is poor
Bloodly hard to learn....I've heard that korean is a doddle to write though.
My students who I tutor are all korean and they say you can learn to write it in about 2 weeks as it's purely phonetic.
It's incredible that from a chinese language base, they developed a language that still looks like characters, but is actually an alphabet.
My students who I tutor are all korean and they say you can learn to write it in about 2 weeks as it's purely phonetic.
It's incredible that from a chinese language base, they developed a language that still looks like characters, but is actually an alphabet.
It's really easy to read and write but understanding the grammar and different ways of talking to different people of different ages and social classes are hard....
Yossarian
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Looks like characters? Maybe a little like the simplified ones, but a girl I knew who studied Korean kept saying she was off to practice writing the 'little stick men' and I get reminded of that every time I see Korean writing.
This computer is so slow that the only source for the game I can find makes it look like a stick figure animation...
I mean that to someone western who didn't know anything about the languages, korean would appear just as much of a character-based language as chinese...
Chinese is quite easy in terms of grammar. Just impossible in terms of writing and tones!
It wasn't
I can understand and speak quite good Chinese, but I still can't even read a newspaper
Shall we talk about the game now.......
But we're the only ones here...
Yossarian
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Nah, I reckon it'd appear more like Thai or Burmese - some completely alien alphabet - but I guess the lines got blurred a little when Mao's initiative turned many characters into simplified squiggles.
Doesn't sound like the game's that much more interesting than a discussion of the idiosyncracies of Asian writing systems...
Even when Mao simplified it though, it still didn't make Chinese any more innately phonetic...
Doesn't Mao have three meanings depending on how you pronounce it?
One is cat isn't it?
Yossarian
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Nope, but it made it look a little more like an alphabet - while removing some of the phonetic clues that make it a little bit easier to learn. Probably would have been easier for everybody if the plans to replace characters with pinyin had gone through but I'm kind of glad they didn't...
