Thai is strictly phonetic as well, with only 44 consonants and some easy vowel constructs. I and many others mastered the script in a week. Tones are easy after you learned your first tonal language as well.
I am tending to learn Korean and not Chinese because the Chinese logographs are pointlessly making the whole learning process unrewardingly slow.
I like tonal languages but I also like phonetic scripts like Thai or Korean. Why did the PDRC abandon Bopomofo :( It would make it so much more fun to learn Mandarin or other Chinese languages!
Or let's use IPA for every language. Semantics would be lost, and a mandarin text couldn't be understand by a cantonese speaker, but I don't care. (Just kidding)
I am tending to learn Korean and not Chinese because the Chinese logographs are pointlessly making the whole learning process unrewardingly slow.
I like tonal languages but I also like phonetic scripts like Thai or Korean. Why did the PDRC abandon Bopomofo :( It would make it so much more fun to learn Mandarin or other Chinese languages!
Or let's use IPA for every language. Semantics would be lost, and a mandarin text couldn't be understand by a cantonese speaker, but I don't care. (Just kidding)