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LorenPaul (Offline)
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03-31-2009, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by kirakira View Post
That's taking it a bit too far. Native Chinese has the following advantages over Heisig:

- Vast vocabulary of Kanji compounds and ideas which are common between Chinese/Korean/Japanese.
- Ability to identify Sino-Japanese words from native Japanese words
- Ability to identify which compound words uses Onyomi and which uses Kunyomi (basically any compounds that makes sense in Chinese takes Onyomi, and anything looks completely random uses Kunyomi)
- Ability to remember Onyomi effortlessly due to patterns between native Chinese Pinyin and Onyomi. (i.e. anything starts with J in Pinyin starts with K in Japanese, anything ends with N in Pinyin also ends with N in Japanese etc.)

and tap their head whilst rubbing their belly at the same time too?

jesus man... lighten up!
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