Yes, but the first time was in college.  It's a fun language; very logical in many respects, but totally different from English.

I've tried studying Chinese a few times, but never got very far.  I find it too difficult to reproduce the tones correctly, and of course, being only one syllable per word (character) makes it very complex.  Chinese characters, on the other hand, can be a lot of fun, and of course, once you've learned to write them, you can essentially read both Chinese and Japanese, as there's a huge overlap.

I'm still a beginner at the written language (I can probably recognize several hundred characters, from a minimum of 2000 necessary to read a newspaper in Japan), but one of these days I'll learn more ... :)

I keep toying with the idea of writing a Perl gui for practicing "hiragana"/"katakana".  (Those are the 2 phonetic systess Japanese uses in addition to "kanji" (= Chinese characters)).  It seems like a fun project which could be useful for those learning written Japanese (like my daughter).

s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/

In reply to Re^4: Improving a palindrome script... by liverpole
in thread Improving a palindrome script... by chinamox

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