Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by irrational on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:03PM
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I don't know Korean, but Spanish is amazingly regular. Once you learn the 27 letters of the alphabet you can read anything. I'm not saying you can comprehend anything, but you can sound out all the words. It's not like English where you can't tell how to pronounce a word just by looking at it (for instance "though"). In Spanish you always know how to pronounce a word just by looking at it.
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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by __derek__ on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:55PM
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On top of that, Spanish feels like a pragmatic language: it foregoes French's formality and resistance to borrowed words (e.g., computadora versus ordinateur). It also helps that Spanish speakers tend to be forgiving of gender errors in the rare cases where the spelling misleads (mostly just masculine words that end in -a).
Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by oftenwrong on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:29PM
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This is more of a split between Latin America and Spain (and the various other places that borrow language from them)
Latin America -> computadora
Spain -> ordenador