Learning Languages Because I Need To Understand And Be Friends With Every Person On Earth

Amy Adams - Favorite Performances of the Decade

4/6 Arrival (2016) dir Denis Villeneuve

“So, Hannah…This is where your story begins. The day they departed…Despite knowing the journey…and where it leads…I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.”

happiness is listening to a song in your target language and understanding more and more words over time 

come back to me. – ARRIVAL (2016) dir. denis villeneuve.

Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

you get it...

I hear your argument that I shouldn’t learn 5 languages at the same time however...I’m going to ignore it.

Now, I’m not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life, like the day they arrived.

ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Speaking of how much Chinese and Japanese have in common though, here's an interesting NeighborNet typological chart of Northeast Asia:

Besides the tripartite Sinitic / Micro-Altaic / Japonic–Korean division, note also features like

modern Japanese and also Ryukyuan drifting closer to Ainu;

Jurchen-Manchu drifting closer to Sinitic and then back again (??);

the relative difficulty of separating "Altaic" from "non-Altaic" languages of NE Asia

Atayal hanging out close to Old Chinese and indeed within the authors' division line for Sinitic (many other SEA languages might fall around here);

Russian hanging out in the upper right between North Tungusic and Yukaghir (in a larger network most of Indo-European and also Uralic would probably attach somewhere around here).

(from Yurayong & Szeto 2020: (De-)Altaicisation as convergence and divergence between Japonic and Koreanic languages)