Why did I have to choose one of the most complex languages to eradicate my monolingual irritation? Well, it was purely by chance that I should be standing in Waterstones with a spare £20 and happened upon the language section offering me a multitude of dialects. The choice has always been between Russian, Polish, Japanese or Chinese (Mandarin), mainly because these are four places I've always wanted to visit but also because I know next to nothing of their vocabulary beyond hearing poetic recitals from films. Japanese happened to come about through a simple process of blind point and purchase meaning, through discipline, I should now pursue so as to profit from my investment.
Have you seen the amount of syllables involved in a sentence, though?? Christ, always good to start with the basics, 1- 10 should suffice for this week:
1. ichi (ee-chee)
2. ni (nee)
3. san (sahn)
4. yon (yohn)
5. go (goh)
6. roku (roh-koo)
7. nana (nah-nah)
8. hachi (hah-chee)
9. kyū (kyoo)
10. jū (jooo)
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