http://www.nicemustard.com/2006/10/12/atom-national-conference-2006-e-merging-technologies/ jaz choi_ play :D _ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:02:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.nicemustard.com/2006/10/12/atom-national-conference-2006-e-merging-technologies/#comment-1536 jaz Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:13:26 +0000 http://www.nicemustard.com/2006/10/12/atom-national-conference-2006-e-merging-technologies/#comment-1536 you're always in the process of learning something. that's very inspiring! i tend to learn language by listening to/singing songs, so i don't know how/where i can use my self-taught (still basic) japanese... apart from singing -_-; you’re always in the process of learning something. that’s very inspiring! i tend to learn language by listening to/singing songs, so i don’t know how/where i can use my self-taught (still basic) japanese… apart from singing -_-;

]]> http://www.nicemustard.com/2006/10/12/atom-national-conference-2006-e-merging-technologies/#comment-1510 mitchell porter Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:16:04 +0000 http://www.nicemustard.com/2006/10/12/atom-national-conference-2006-e-merging-technologies/#comment-1510 I am in a rush to achieve firsthand access to the CJK cultural space myself, and have hit upon the strategy of trying to absorb all three languages at once, with the unifying stratagem being to regard even the hangul and the kana as pictograms. The final step was discovering that the kana are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manyogana" rel="nofollow">derived from Chinese characters</a> too... I had been thinking of suggesting that we work on this together, somehow, but I want mostly to be able to read Chinese, whereas you must want spoken Chinese for (some) interviews, so maybe the overlap's not so big. I am in a rush to achieve firsthand access to the CJK cultural space myself, and have hit upon the strategy of trying to absorb all three languages at once, with the unifying stratagem being to regard even the hangul and the kana as pictograms. The final step was discovering that the kana are derived from Chinese characters too… I had been thinking of suggesting that we work on this together, somehow, but I want mostly to be able to read Chinese, whereas you must want spoken Chinese for (some) interviews, so maybe the overlap’s not so big.

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