Here's my second blog entry. Hi again. It's half-term week, so I've taken a break from my usual language learning to look at a book on Japanese that my mother got me. I've found Japanese fascinating for a long time, but I put off learning more about it, because the script is so difficult to understand. I'm doing alright, though, and I am now thinking about trying to go further with it.
Anyway, the main thing I want to bring up today is how frustrating it is to have a strong passion which people around you don't share or understand. Most of my family and friends are not particularly interested in language; nor are they as pedantic about it as I am. Yesterday, on a different forum, someone made the mistake of thinking that accent and dialect meant the same thing. I politely corrected them, and brought up this subject with my dad and brother. All was well until my brother said "dialects are the written form". Well, I just had to explain to him what a dialect really is. Then, a bit...
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