Biggles Wrote:I'm sure your English is far better than my son's Japanese after 4 years of high school and a year of college study. I've heard that English is one of the hardest languages to learn, due to the exceptions to every rule of spelling and pronunciation and the idiomatic expressions. I can believe that, especially considering how often I hear Americans butcher our native tongue.
I took German throughout high school and college, and the nice thing about German is that the rules are the rules (somehow that figures).
Kenji Wrote:Some people say "Japanese language is very difficult". Well, I think so too. Sometimes I mistake my language. :p Anyway, spelling and pronunciation is still okay. One problem is "Whose dialogue?"Sometimes dialogue can be difficult to follow. Usually an author will name the speakers and then alternate back and forth from person to person.
From a point of view, English is difficult.
Kenji Wrote:Some people say "Japanese language is very difficult". Well, I think so too. Sometimes I mistake my language. :p Anyway, spelling and pronunciation is still okay. One problem is "Whose dialogue?" For example.....
"Oh thank you Ifasen! Thank you!"
"I want to come back too," Vincent McCarthy said.
"Me too" Anya cried.
This is okay, I know whose dialogues. But how about this?
"Oh thank you Ifasen! Thank you!"
"I want to come back too,"
"Me too"
If those dialogues are like this, I would think like this, "Which is Vincent's words? Which is Anya's words...?"
While I'm reading THE HAUNTED AIR, sometimes those things make me confuse.
If those dialogues translate to Japanese...
"Ah, arigato, Ifasen! Arigato!"
"Ore mo mata modottekitaina"
"Watashimoyo"
Ore=I(male's word)
moyo=too(female's word)
At least I can understand whose dialogues. From a point of view, English is difficult.
Kenji Wrote:BTW, while I'm reading THE HAUNTED AIR, I imagine Kenton brothers are Lenny Kravitz(as Jack thought), and Charlie is Jamie Foxx. Now they are my favorite characters in RJ novels.
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....these mysterious "dog" ladies figure in both. To me they seem to be "Mother Earth" types; closely attuned to the goings on in the world and worshipers of Gaea (from Greek mythology the earth goddess from whom all gods, titans, and monsters sprang). They are allied to "The Ally", but have a more beneficial attitude towards earth and especially mankind. To me, the Gaea thing becomes apparent in "Gateways", the next book after "The Haunted Air". I hope you can get those soon so you can let me know what you think about them.
Maggers Wrote:Mike, you and I really do think alike. I had the exact same thoughts about the ladies and their dogs being mother earth types, attuned to Gaea, etc. No one, so far as I can remember, has brought that up before. I concur wholeheartedly.
Maggers Wrote:Mike, you and I really do think alike. I had the exact same thoughts about the ladies and their dogs being mother earth types, attuned to Gaea, etc. No one, so far as I can remember, has brought that up before. I concur wholeheartedly.