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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 05:38 AM
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16. You must have good ears
I'd think it would be difficult to detect cold like that.

For me the hardest part is the social stuff, like when to drop the honorifics. The first time somebody spoke to me in the familiar, I nearly went into shock. "Does this person mean to be rude? Or friendly?" It's funny. Iwe ("thou") can be like a term of endearment or a fighting word, or a thousand things in between.

I never had much trouble with the basic phonology and grammar. It took a while to get up to speed though.
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