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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6188 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 42 02 August 2009 at 5:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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I was gonna say Burmese until Fat-tony mentioned it was the most regular of a group of four alphabets. So, I'd like to propose the classical Mongolian script. I've never had the chance to study it yet (though I'd like to) but it looks to be quite daunting. That it was different letter forms for beginning, middle, and end positions in a word makes me think it's comparable to Arabic to an extent.
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| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5863 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 18 of 42 02 August 2009 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Maybe you shouldn't base difficulty on how it looks. I've heard Arabic, which looks quite difficult, isn't too bad.
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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6188 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 42 03 August 2009 at 12:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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Very true. I can't tell you how many of my friends are shocked that I was able to learn the Korean alphabet. A surprising number of people think it's kind of like Chinese characters where you have to learn each one individually. Looks can be quite deceiving!
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| Ertugrul Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 5664 days ago 63 posts - 124 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 20 of 42 03 August 2009 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think, Arabic is not too hard. At least it has an alphabet in which any individual character represents a letter (for consonants). And vowel marks are not too difficult to learn; once you make necessary practice and your eyes/ears/mind are accustomed to them this will not be a problem anymore.
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| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5610 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 21 of 42 05 August 2009 at 4:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5610 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 22 of 42 05 August 2009 at 11:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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I feel the alphabet of Thai is more difficult to master than that of Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Greek, Cyrillic. Does anyone else feel this way?
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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 23 of 42 05 August 2009 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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ZJJ you are beginning to spook me!!! :-)
It's unbelievable that you have learnt all these alphabets plus thousands of Chinese signs no doubt. I don't think anybody else on the site knows that many.. Or perhaps your experience with learning signs makes you very fast at learning the new letters? Someone else recently commented that the Thai alphabet was harder than any other. What is it that makes it hard? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5863 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 24 of 42 05 August 2009 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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