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Originally Posted by Graham
Well, IMO, it's somewhat more a matter of teaching and memory.
Language teaching at school sucks big time. You don't learn a language by studying verb conjugations or trying to memorise lists of vocabulary, you learn a language by *using it*.
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Thats true. In Canada, students graduating high school are supposed to be bilingual, but they are not.
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It's interesting, trouble is, there's a slight problem in that if you look at their flash animation, the same symbol (a square) is used to represent "breath", "mouth", "man", "walled garden" and "person"...
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That is because Chinese doesn't have "words" but concepts. The square symbol represents the concept of man, which can be a mouth, or a man himself, or a person, or breath (breathing implies life, which is another concept for man).
By the way, here is some Sanskrit for those of you that has never seen it before:
