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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]Some East Asian languages, such as Burmese, Korean, and Japanese have simpler tone systems, which are sometimes called 'register' or 'pitch accent' systems.[/b] However, some languages in the region are not tonal at all, including Mongolian, Khmer, and Malay.[/quote]

Interesting, Korean is my mother tongue and I didn't realize it had a "simpler tone systems, which are sometimes called 'register' or 'pitch accent' systems" or whatever the hell you're talking about.  Things you learn on DCUM...[/quote]

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