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Mi chiamo Silvio Pasqualini, sono di Bolzano. Sono un esperto linguistica, lessicologia, lessicografia e di paleontologia.
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🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇦🇹 Linguistics,Lexicology,Teacher, Ripetizioni,Inglese,Insegnante,Bolzano,corsi,lessicologia,paleontologist lessicografia,dialettologia,Silvio Pasqualini,scuola,class lingue,language,SCHOOL, lezioni,polyglot,lesson,Italian,poliglotta Parlo Italiano,Inglese,Spagnolo, Portoghese e un po' di Tedesco. Adoro gli anni 90 e 2000 quando la musica e la moda governavano. Mi piace guardare film e serie TV a casa o al cinema. Mi piace andare in discoteca specialmente dove fanno musica retrò e non rumore e parolacce come adesso. Mi piacciono gli anime e i film di fantascienza, horror e thriller in particolare Terminator, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, X-men, Scary Movie, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Yu Gi OH, Occhi di Gatto e i Digimon. Mi piace la cucina cinese, giapponese, messicana,italiana, messicana e austriaca. Colleziono oggetti vintage e spero che inventino presto la macchina del tempo. Insegno inglese a corsi di lingua e do ripetizioni (English Lessons) da 5 anni nella mia scuola di lingue.

05/10/2026

Indo European languages

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05/10/2026

HOW TO SAY LAKE IN ALL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

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05/10/2026

SVO vs SOV
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05/10/2026

Understandability between Polish and other Slavic languages

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17/09/2026

Hanja refers to traditional Chinese characters that were borrowed and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciations. [1, 2]

What is Hanja?

Chinese roots: Hanja are traditional Chinese characters used in Korea for centuries before the creation of the modern alphabet.

Sino-Korean words: About 60% of Korean vocabulary comes from Chinese roots, known as Sino-Korean words.

Meaning-based: While Hangul represents sounds, Hanja characters represent specific meanings. [1, 2]

Hanja vs. Hangul

Hangul dominance: Modern Korean is written almost entirely in Hangul, the phonetic alphabet created by King Sejong in 1446.

No native readings: Unlike Japanese Kanji, Hanja is not used to write native Korean words. Native words use only Hangul.

Traditional form: Hanja uses traditional characters and has not undergone modern simplifications like those used in mainland China. [1, 2, 3]

Where is Hanja used today?

Personal and family names: Many Korean names and family clan origins are rooted in Hanja.

Formal documents: Legal papers, official records, and traditional certificates sometimes include Hanja for clarity.

Newspapers and menus: You may see characters used in headlines to tell apart words that sound the same, or on restaurant menus to show portion sizes.

Art and calligraphy: Traditional texts, art, and historical monuments rely heavily on Hanja.

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17/09/2026

Yes, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese numbers are related through historical borrowing, even though the three base languages are from entirely different language families. [1]

The Shared Number System (Sino-Xenic)

Chinese origin: Korean (Sino-Korean) and Japanese (Sino-Japanese) borrowed their secondary number words directly from historical forms of Chinese. [1]

Phonetic similarity: Sound patterns remain very close across all three languages. For example, the number "three" is sān in Mandarin, san in Japanese, and sam (삼) in Korean. [1]

Large numbers: All three languages group large numbers by units of 10,000 (wàn in Chinese, man in Korean and Japanese), rather than the Western grouping of 1,000 (thousand). [1]

Dual Number Systems

Native systems: Both Korean and Japanese originally had their own native counting words before interacting with Chinese civilization.

Coexistence: Instead of replacing native words, both cultures kept their native numbers for everyday things (like counting people or hours) and adopted the Chinese-derived numbers for formal writing, money, and large values (like minutes or years).

Chinese independence: Chinese uses only one native numerical system.

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17/09/2026

Japanese Kanji and Chinese Hanzi share the same historical roots, with roughly 50% to 60% of basic characters looking identical or very similar in shape and meaning. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Key Similarities

Shared Origin: Japanese Kanji are borrowed Chinese characters introduced to Japan centuries ago.

Visual Form: Many characters look identical or closely match traditional and simplified Chinese writing.

Core Meanings: Basic concepts like person (人) or water (水) share the same meaning in both languages. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Major Differences

Pronunciation: The same character is read completely differently in Mandarin Chinese versus Japanese. Japanese uses both native readings (kun'yomi) and Chinese-borrowed readings (on'yomi). [1, 2]

Divergent Simplification: Mainland China adopted Simplified Chinese, while Japan created its own simplified forms called shinjitai, meaning some characters evolved differently. [1, 2]

False Friends: Some shared characters have completely different modern meanings (for example, 勉強 means "study" in Japanese, but "reluctant effort" in Chinese). [1]

Extra Alphabets: Japanese mixes Kanji with two phonetic syllabaries—Hiragana and Katakana—which do not exist in Chinese.

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17/09/2026

KOREAN, CHINESE AND JAPANESE WRITING

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17/09/2026

Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are two distinct writing systems for the same underlying language, distributed across different geographic regions and shaped by distinct political, historical, and cultural factors. [1, 2]

Regional Distribution

Mainland China: Uses Simplified Chinese as the official standard for government, media, and education, introduced in the mid-20th century to boost literacy. [1, 2]

Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau: Use Traditional Chinese exclusively or primarily in official documents, education, and public life. [1]

Singapore and Malaysia: Officially or commonly use Simplified Chinese, though older traditional usage or mixed local variations persist in certain communities. [1, 2]

Overseas Communities: Feature a mix. Older diaspora communities (such as in North America and Europe) traditionally favored Traditional Chinese, but newer immigration from Mainland China has increased the presence of Simplified Chinese. [1]

Key Differences

Stroke Complexity: Traditional characters retain intricate historical structures, while Simplified characters reduce the number of strokes per character using standardized historical shorthand or newly devised forms. [1, 2, 3]

Mutual Intelligibility: Despite visual differences, most literate native users of one script can read and understand a large portion of the other (often around 80% or more) with minimal practice. [1, 2]

Text Flow: Simplified text is typically formatted horizontally, whereas Traditional text frequently appears in both horizontal and traditional vertical layouts. [1]

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