DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.
01:06
Chinese is tonal, which means the way you say it affect what you mean. The second tone which a forward tick (think of , above the letter) is like the tone for questions. The third tone, which is a 'v' shape is kind of like a surprise kind of thing, like how some could say "what?" but starting low and such.
01:25
So the tonal bits completely change the meaning. I may have mentioned this but I also got a book on reading and writing. I suppose first I should learn to speak it because the read/write is just most of the character set, a few thousand characters.
01:36
The good thing though is the order is subject-verb-object, compared to others such as Japanese which is subject-object-verb. This means I will have an easier time translating because I do not have to flip words around.
10:28
I can use annotations and such to show the order of inheritence of specifiers and such.