hi,
I find really hard to figure out animal's name or the like.
For example, like birds, you have sparrow, pigeon, etc. and they are difficult for me to guess the meaning in essays or in listening.
I mean, like chinese, we have a character 鸟 in almost very name of birds. Therefore we can guess out that the word denotes a kind of bird.
I know some about prefix or suffix but I still don't think they can make sense.
My question is
"can natives quickly figure out whether it means an animal and the species from a word which you haven't seen before?"
and it will be appreciate if you can tell your methods.
Thank you~~
I find really hard to figure out animal's name or the like.
For example, like birds, you have sparrow, pigeon, etc. and they are difficult for me to guess the meaning in essays or in listening.
I mean, like chinese, we have a character 鸟 in almost very name of birds. Therefore we can guess out that the word denotes a kind of bird.
I know some about prefix or suffix but I still don't think they can make sense.
My question is
"can natives quickly figure out whether it means an animal and the species from a word which you haven't seen before?"
and it will be appreciate if you can tell your methods.
Thank you~~