To be fair, zero is a complicated number
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It probably sounds silly but I quite enjoy not memorizing different names for days of the weeks and months like when I was learning french ... Lundi, Mardi ...
Nice to be like 星期一，星期二，星期三 ... for week days and 一月，二月，三月... for months.
This seems like it would be difficult for the visually impaired.
I like how in French it's almost the same as in English. Monday = Moon Day = Lunar Day = Lundi
Tuesday = Tyr's Day = Mars' Day (both being the god of war) = Mardi
Same, and not having to remember different versions of words for tense and gender is great. Where Chinese gets you back though, is measure words. Is a can of beans many 颗? 粒? One 包? Oh I was supposed to remember 罐?
I mean tbf you're addressing a can of bean, so 罐 is correct. It's the container that count, not the content.
Okay but what if that can of beans can suck its own dick?
That’s not what Mr Rogers taught me
I don't mind the measure words so much because you can always use the generic one and people will understand, it's the tones that really mess me up.
I find the tones are hard, but I find it's easier to remember them within a sentence than for individual worlds. Good news is if you mess it up, context still makes it possible to figure out what you meant.
Dumplings vs sleep....it still gets me
lol there are just so many words that basically sound the same and mean completely different things