
Polyglot & Glossika Founder Mike Campbell on How to Master Mandarin
The Language Mastery Show
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The Roots in English
The idea of roots in english are so opaque that we rely on lexicalization. In chinese, every character has this long history and it has a meaning tied to it. And just like russian, you'll have words that can be three, four, five or six chinese characters long but have some sort of big compound meaning. It's really a english that is a big mess of words.
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