Bakit ka HAPPY today?

**jut703** · May 21st, 2020 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by jmc21420

This is great, adding value to one’s self.

Learn also mandarin or kanji.

This life or world is one great classroom.

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Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji is next but the Japanese have so much more characters than Korean so it's much harder.

Easiest to learn reading/writing is Korean. Easiest to learn speaking is Japanese. Mandarin is the hardest for both. [emoji28]

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**cast_no_shadow** · May 21st, 2020 01:23 PM

Finally mas madali na mag key-in ng passcode compared before, phone is struggling to recognize your face when mask is on.

Now default agad to passcode when you are wearing facemask.

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**cast_no_shadow** · May 21st, 2020 06:17 PM

Another one.

Parking the car, sakto here comes Lazada delivery dumating na order ko, then dumating ang Barangay asked for my quarantine pass, showed it in exchange they gave me 1K.

Since March naka 2K na ako from Cityhall [emoji16]

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**bugsmobile** · May 21st, 2020 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by cast_no_shadow

Finally mas madali na mag key-in ng passcode compared before, phone is struggling to recognize your face when mask is on.

Now default agad to passcode when you are wearing facemask.

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Yeah hassle to input pa passcode when wearing a mask. Wish they also had a fingerprint option too.

**jmc21420** · May 21st, 2020 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by jut703

Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji is next but the Japanese have so much more characters than Korean so it's much harder.

Easiest to learn reading/writing is Korean. Easiest to learn speaking is Japanese. Mandarin is the hardest for both. [emoji28]

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I studied kanji, hiragana, and katakana before. Among the three, I think kanji is the most difficult.

I can understand a little Korean because I have a lot of Korean friends.

Mandarin is harder, for me. But I think, for practical reasons, and considering that China is the second largest economy in the world, a working knowledge of any of Chinese languages isn’t a waste of your time.

By the way, Japan is third largest. So, you’re on your way. [emoji106]

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**dr. d** · May 21st, 2020 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by jmc21420

I studied kanji, hiragana, and katakana before. Among the three, I think kanji is the most difficult.

I can understand a little Korean because I have a lot of Korean friends.

Mandarin is harder, for me. But I think, for practical reasons, and considering that China is the second largest economy in the world, a working knowledge of any of Chinese languages isn’t a waste of your time.

By the way, Japan is third largest. So, you’re on your way. [emoji106]

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aren't we happy, we do not have to take great pains to study english?
many peoples dread going to the USA, because they do not know english.

**_Cathy_** · May 21st, 2020 08:11 PM

Nakakatuwa talaga mga "babies" ko sa office (staff sa kabilang department) kahit working 12-14 hrs a day, bubbly pa rin! Papalipat na daw sila ng position pag wala na ko LOL! I will really miss them

**jmc21420** · May 21st, 2020 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by dr. d

aren't we happy, we do not have to take great pains to study english?
many peoples dread going to the USA, because they do not know english.

Language is a tool for communication. The index is not happiness but utility.

According to US Border Patrol, in 2018 alone (and there were more in 2019 per US Customs and Border Protection Agency) there were 688,375 migrants that were apprehended in the US-Mexico southwest border trying to enter the United States illegally.

Most of these migrants came not only from Mexico, but from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. Some even came from Eastern Europe.

And most of them do not speak the language, but their native tongue.

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**jut703** · May 21st, 2020 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by jmc21420

I studied kanji, hiragana, and katakana before. Among the three, I think kanji is the most difficult.

I can understand a little Korean because I have a lot of Korean friends.

Mandarin is harder, for me. But I think, for practical reasons, and considering that China is the second largest economy in the world, a working knowledge of any of Chinese languages isn’t a waste of your time.

By the way, Japan is third largest. So, you’re on your way. [emoji106]

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If purely for utility, definitely learning Mandarin is most practical.

But I enjoy learning Japanese/Korean more so it's what I study in my free time. Don't think I'd have the same movtivation for Mandarin.

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**dr. d** · May 21st, 2020 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by jmc21420

Language is a tool for communication. The index is not happiness but utility.

According to US Border Patrol, in 2018 alone (and there were more in 2019 per US Customs and Border Protection Agency) there were 688,375 migrants that were apprehended in the US-Mexico southwest border trying to enter the United States illegally.

Most of these migrants came not only from Mexico, but from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. Some even came from Eastern Europe.

And most of them do not speak the language, but their native tongue.

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perhaps, you haven't yet experienced being in a room where some other tongue foreign to you, was the medium of communication...
and when it came for your turn to transact business, the person in charge suddenly spoke good english...

well,
they're probably fleeing from something more fearful than dealing with people who don't speak their native tongue.