Re: Culture clash

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:43:54 GMT, Paul Blay wrote:

Phil Yff wrote:
My
anecdotal information tells me that there are a lot of Japanese who can
read the New York Times with varying degrees of comprehension but there is
a very small percentage of native English speakers who can read the Asahi
Shimbun.

I don't think you need to go 'anecdotal' for that. As you imply though
it says nothing about any 'absolute' difficulty for either nationality
learning either language.

Just trying to establish a benchmark so we can talk more objectively about
degrees of difficulty.

Phil Yff
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