Still yet another sound-alike

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Japanese: あ、そう。[a sou]

Gernman: Ach so!

English: Oh / Is it!

The response [a sou]  is used in almost same situations

in Japanese and in German.

That is, you can use [a sou] in various situations.

For example, you can imply

"I am not interested in your story" or

"Wow.  I had no idea about that!"

depending on the intonation.

Yet another sound-alike

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I have just started to learn Arabic,
and found another sound-alike.

Arabic: أنت  [anta]

Japanese: あんた [anta]
(Not very polite though.)

English: you

The three roundest languages

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Here are the three most roundish languages, or writing systems.

Sinhala (spoken in Sri Lanka): ඉස්තුති බොහොම ස්තුතියි

Georgian (spoken in Georgia): მადლობა გადაგიხადოთ

Malayalam (spoken in India): നന്ദി  ഉപകാരം

Perhaps one of the three writing systems in Japanese is also roundish.
Japanese: ありがとうございます。
It is too familiar for me to see as shapes though.

Blessing of Civilization

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There are lots of ways to learn a language.

I prefer reading and listening to writing.

It is no surprise that I am not so good at writing

even in Korean, in which basically

you can write it if you can pronounce it.



Then I found something very convenient.

That is, Siri in iphone.

He is so smart,

though sometimes goofy.