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You should do Spanish people with Arabic transliteration
Get Arabic speakers to read maltese
@@Nick-zl5xf I agree that would be fun since most Arabic speakers know the Latin alphabet and Maltese is similar
Haha I think a Spanish speaker would really struggle, even if Arabic is written in the Latin script.
Spanish and Arabic aren’t that similar at all though
@@thewinner7382 But Spanish had Arabic loan words
I assume it’s similar to an English speaker trying to read Spanish or Latin?
Kind of. But Japanese has three scripts, only on of these comes from Chinese, the other two are unique. Plus, the Chinese in Japanese are often loanwords rather than a having a common origin as in French and Spanish, for the rest these two are completelly separate languages.
It’s more like an English person reading a Russian maths book
@@falkkiwiben no, they don’t share common scripts. This is very hard to compare
@@ohtani2024 what I’m saying is that “15” means the same in Russian and English, but is not pronounced the same. It’s the only logography we use in a day to day basis.
Probably more like reading another Germanic language, but from some centuries ago
Awesome!
Just a heads up: for Chinese, the English term *radical* (from root) can sort of be treated as the core part of the character. Usually the radical is the component on the left or the bottom. *Often* but not always, the radical’s meaning gives some sort of (sometimes cryptic) clue to the character’s meaning. The radical for both of the characters meaning coffee (ka1 fei1 in Mandarin) means mouth. In Chinese dictionaries, they index words by the radical!
Note that Japanese would have a different word order and different characters ([私は]毎日珈琲を飲みます) i.e. “I every day coffee drink”. Some of the characters in the Chinese sentence would look “old” or “uncommon” to a Japanese speaker, but they would still recognize them.
Not language, but English grammar: “everyday” as one word is the adjective form, like “it was an everyday occurrence” or “These cups are for everyday use.” “When it isn’t directly describing something, it’s “every day” — “I drink coffee every day” ☕
Yes, I know, but I overlooked that when producing all the pieces of the video.