Re: URL: Nova goes belly up in Japan.

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:26:02 -0700, Arri London wrote:

Since my ancestry is Dutch and because I've had quite a few opportunities
to go to the Netherlands (although most of them are just an overnight stay
at the airport, I've made several attempts to start to learn the language.
However, I can't find anyone to speak with me even in Amsterdam.


Speaking Dutch and English, by the way, does allow me to understand
quite a bit of German - enough to get the gist of what is going on
anyway. To bring this topic full circle and slightly back on topic - I
watched the German movie "Nackt" with Japanese subtitles while living in
Japan - between my English, Dutch, and (barely) JLPT level 3 Japanese I
was able to basically fully understand it!

I studied German in college. It hindered me more than it helped me. As a
novice learner of Dutch, whenever I encountered an impediment, my mind
switched to German.
--
Phil

LOL in our family, some relatives are Dutch, some are German/Austrian
(the rest are Polish but we won't get into that). Family gatherings were
always linguistically interesting! Certainly both languages creep into
my speech unless I have time to sort them out. If I ever master any
spoken Japanese at least there shouldn't be any conflicts, since the
little bit of Chinese I know sounds utterly different anyway.

By the way, I would imagine that this is one of the threads, you might have
had difficulty decoding the characters. Your iso-2022-jp should be able to
decode 日本語　(nihongo) easily but it will have difficulty with ÿ (the
umlauted y) and ij or IJ the lowercase and uppercase ligatures that combine
ij and IJ as single characters.

To read all characters correctly, you will need to use a decoding scheme
like UTF-8.

--
Phil
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