Xingyi and Bagua: means to an end. Sifu Patterson reviews

[Steve James]

But language skill is like a special filter - if your brain is fitted with the right one, it will properly place sounds into different categories as required. If you have the wrong one - say, a Japanese language filter for the English language - then the normally differentiated sounds ("R" and "L") will be thrown into a same, undifferentiated bucket (the "RL" bucket).

Yes. Exactly right. There is an experiment where a Japanese speaker is asked to say something like "bunraku" fast and then say it slower and slower. To English speakers, the "r" starts to be heard as an "l". But, the Japanese speaker doesn't register the change at all.

Bruce Lee should NOT have been Kato, if only because a REAL Kato (i.e. Japanese-born) would have said "Blitto Leedo." We demand authenticity!

Lmao

[Bill]

My tai-chi teacher used to call me 'Beer'.



So, of course, then all the other students started to copy him. And that was it, my school name was Beer.

[edededed]

For me, it's a lot easier to learn a new consonant, though, than a new vowel - since vowels are sort of just arbitrarily set ranges on an x-y axis of tongue positions... Of course, we are usually lucky in that most languages do not have that many vowels (anyway, less than English), so we get a free pass!

[dspyrido]

My tai-chi teacher used to call me 'Beer'.



So, of course, then all the other students started to copy him. And that was it, my school name was Beer.

My one spent 30 minutes trying to pronounce "leverage". I gave up before he did.

That said he laughed whenever I mentioned "toilet" in mandarin so the door swings both ways.

[Wildfist]

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[wayne hansen]

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[bruce]

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