
#77 Reading Techniques to Master Chinese
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What's the Difference Between Chinese and English?
The really interesting thing about decoting is that it doesn't just go from like a symbol to meaning and then understanding. Actually there's this intermediary step of sound. And, ah, this is what makes things really interesting, because some languages ar more phonetic than not. But then you still have words i, you know of, or the or who, which are sight words, and they're not fanetic. You just have to memorize em. Also all these words that don't obey those spelling rules, you know, words like tough and cough and doug and through,. All right, jon kiyou maybe unwrapp that for us explains what does that mean?
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