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Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) by crazychrome on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:16PM (#7623479)
Exactly. Even after 10 years living in UK I still make mistakes with verb. Consider this: http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/have.html, a table just for "have"!
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Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) by Gorkys on Monday April 21, 2014 @08:04PM (#7624857)
Dude, that's nothing. Romance languages are much worse. Check out Italian: http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_avere.htm
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Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) by frooxie on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @07:10AM (#7626921)
Well, then there's Finnish with its noun cases, etc: http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Perkele_ddd3f7_5063375.jpg
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Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) by dublinben on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:46PM (#7623701)
What's so complicated about that? It's far from the most irregular verb in the language. The participle is really the only curve ball.
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Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) by Raphael on Monday April 21, 2014 @05:18PM (#7623966)
with verbs
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