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To: Step1 who wrote (35625)	7/2/2003 12:27:40 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I find French grammar straight forward. The actual spelling exceptions are a pain I'll admit. Then again English spelling is far from straight forward. OTOH I found Latin a cakewalk in high school so maybe I'm just bizarre... Kastel

To: Step1 who wrote (35625)	7/2/2003 1:25:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Step1, you and Malcolm are obviously confused. I didn't mean the spoken language. I meant the written. Chinese is all kanji. Lately simplified and now heading for pinyin to modernize it like romanji in Japanese. Japanese still uses heaps of kanji, but heavily supplements with hiragana, a rational phonetic system, with none of the English style exceptions. I dare say you know that. In for dinner, not out to lunch. Mqurice PS: I'm a shareholder in our son's business, eigokyoshitsu.com which teaches Engrish to Japanese. Try it out. His main business is snowadventures.co.nz - first customer of the season arrived today and they are now enroute to Ohakune.