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[quote=Anonymous]FYI, Japanese and Korean are not tonal languages. It's a little easier for speakers of Japanese and Korean to learn Mandarin b/c some words are similar and many words derive from Mandarin in the same way English/French/Spanish and other romance languages are derived from Latin. I'm bilingual Korean/English and we chose Mandarin immersion for DC which we can support w/visits to Asia and will be useful for DC if he choses to live there.[/quote] FYI: There are numerous tonal languages in East Asia and South East Asia, including all the Chinese languages (though some such as Shanghainese are only marginally tonal), Vietnamese, Thai, and Lao. Some East Asian languages, such as Burmese, Korean, and Japanese have simpler tone systems, which are sometimes called 'register' or 'pitch accent' systems. However, some languages in the region are not tonal at all, including Mongolian, Khmer, and Malay.[/quote]
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