Next Gen Group & Benny's Twitter

Spindle (verb) - to grow tall and slender, often disproportionately so.

Wonder how google translated 'Pattaya' into that

Good question AVB - can't see that info on the site, however I notice there's a 'bronze dribbler' membership which sounds like what I need

เดือยพัทยา - 14 years in Thailand and you still can't write Pattaya in Thai Fair play that man / lazy git You had me googling what it was and all I came up with was this:

http://www.kradumthong.com/images/fbfiles/images/16032010_003_.jpg

Poor Chet's done a from his own thread!!

Speak it fluently Kimchi, but I can only read about 20% of those squiggly lines !!

I won't have the money for a membership till the end of September so I hope it doesn't close

Fair enough Pattaya - I started with the basics in Japanese, with counting:

'one' is 一

'two' is 二

'three' is 三

So far so good, I was really getting the hang of this stuff, and was so far fluent in numbers one to three after only a couple of minutes - total mastery of the language was surely only a day or two away!! Then they threw me a curveball I never recovered from:

'four' is 四

And I thought, 'feck this' and went down the 'pub' (izakaya) instead and had some yakitori and Asahi instead

CHINESE, U4197.
Dem Japanese will copy anything and everything.

Teaching Chinese numbers written usually goes :

1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10.

4/5/6 require 4+ strokes.

RDBD san, do you speak/read Chinese? It's no more them copying the Chinese than our alphabet, vocabulary and grammar is 'copied' from elsewhere. In fact it's quite similar (apart from the fact our influences are more diverse).

"do you speak/read Chinese?"

I can read and write Chinese (not basic newspaper std anymore ) .
Spoken : Guandongwah (Cantonese) badly.

The "Kanji" script in Japan.
Just imported due to the proximity of China.
No doubt things like the spread of Buddhist scripture played their part in that.

That is very impressive indeed RDBD How/why so?

I was always under the impression (but am not really sure anymore - been a long time since I came back and have forgotten a lot) that due to the obvious proximity Kanji (is it hanzi or something in Chinese?) became crucial mainly because of trade and diplomacy, and religion was a much slower and less pressing 'need' (?)

"How/why so?"

Have friends in HK. Wanted to work there if I could.


"religion was a much slower and less pressing 'need'"

Religion is a handy way to spread language.
Think about Arabic going wherever Islam went (the Koran being written in Arabic etc) .