添削

添削のお手伝いをしましょう！修正済み

Miya_Unaからのテキスト - English

  • A Catalogue of Languages

  • There are a great number of languages in this world.
  • Even linguists don't know the accurate number of them.
  • Each language has its peculiar features, and I often enjoy comparing them.
  • Of course I know that it is ridiculous to reflect which language is the "best," but don't you think that it is interesting to think of their differences or their characteristics?
  • Today, some of my friends from Britain and the United States asked me which language he should learn as their third foreign language.
  • They said that they preferred an Far East Asian one.
    • I thought to myself, "Can I decide such an important thing?" At this time, I struck on an idea.
  • How about making a kind of a catalogue of languages for them?
    • I wanted to write three languages, but I found that I couldn't post them all because there is a limitation of the length of a text in this website.
  • So let me write one of them today. # Chinese.
  • Chinese has the most number of native speakers in the world, which amounts to about 1.3 billion.
  • It means that if all the people in this planet determined to play mahjong, about one Chinese speaker is in each table.
  • I can't assert this because I'm rubbish at calculating, though.
  • Anyway, whether you are willing to play mahjong or not, it will be your strength to able to speak Chinese.
  • Of course, there are some difficulties.
    • Firstly, Chinese characters are very hard to remember for people who are not from the Chinese cultural area, such as Japan, Vietnam or Korea.
    • Secondly, it is also very difficult to master its pronunciation.
    • It is even for people from Chinese cultural area.
    • For example, the sound "ma" changes its meanings into "mother", "hemp", "horse" and "swearing" by slight sound changes.

添削の手助けをお願いします！ - English