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I have a question about ～そうです (hearsay) and ～みたいです (it looks like):
I noticed there is a だ for nouns and な-adjectives for そうです, but that isn’t the case for みたいです. Why is that?
Examples:
元気だそうです = I hear that he is healthy/energetic.
元気みたいです = It looks like he is healthy/energetic.
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Thanks!
Has anyone learned Mandarin after Japanese? How did you find it? I hear it’s like a cakewalk, and I’d be inclined to agree—I always hear about how simple Chinese grammar is, and hanzi should be fairly straight forward with a working foundation in Japanese.