LEGOanimal22

<p><p><p><p><p><p><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Because I'm communist</span></p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>Nah. Just learning border nations' languages, Chinese and Japanese included. Japanese should be a cinch: they colonised us a century ago, unfairly, and under Western powers' consent, and that ended up horribly for us, but a lot of their words and some western loanwords still remain. Chinese... I can read some Chinese characters, but not pronounced the same way the Chinese does it. Also, their structure is nothing like Korean or Japanese: Korean/Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb, Chinese is like the Western language: Subject-Verb-Object. But they use some new script now since 1954 (Simplified Chinese), which I don't like. I run Traditional because that's what Korean Chinese characters use... but at least Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau still use it.</p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>I'd also like some understanding of recent Korean history too... and Russian may be essential, particularly for the North/South divide.</p></p></p></p></p></p>