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I'm currently learning Mandarin which seems surprisingly easy, probably because I've found it the most enjoyable language to learn so far. One draw back is the need to learn the image of each individual character. The beauty of romanised languages is you can generally guess the spelling of a...

It's true, some English accents are, to put it mildly, not very pleasant. Listen to the distinctive Liverpudlian accent for example, it is far worse than the American accent we are all familiar with in Hollywood movies. However, dialects like the one found in Liverpool and elsewhere are not as...