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To: Grainne who wrote (12091)	8/2/1997 1:20:00 PM
From: ZinMaster	of 108807

Nihonjin = japanese person/people > I think learning Japanese must be very difficult for an adult. I wouldn't know. > Does it require establishing a different frame of mind, and > does learning it change the way reality is perceived? Yes, it makes me feel taller and blonder... The difficulty of the japanese language is vastly overrated. English speakers can make all the sounds in Nihongo (Japanese language) easily. The grammar is fairly straightforward. There is a literal, phonetic alphabet (or two). The only difficulties arise from the circumlocutions of common usage, and the many kanji (pictograms-sort-of). But if you learn to write the kanji, then they aren't so difficult to remember. All in all, I didn't find it that much more difficult than spanish. Many Nihonjin would have you believe that nihongo is impossible to properly use and understand unless you have a genetic predisposition toward the language. Meanwhile Americans figure that anyone can learn English...probably the most phonetically obtuse language on the planet. Actually, measuring the average volume of a superfluid helium atom isn't that difficult either. You just measure the mass and volume of a macroscopic container and divide. The hard part comes in if you try to measure one atom of helium. When superfluid, the uncertainty in the atom's position is larger than the distance between the atoms. So the atoms pass "through" each other without colliding. Hence your yardstick will be hard to use. -zm

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