Il mio paese Tiawan

Taiwan e' un paese indipendente.
molte gente persone pensano che Taiwan e' un paese di cinese faccia parte della Cina,
sebbene noi parliamo solo una lingua simile (vuoi dire che il cinese e il taiwanese sono simili ma hanno comunque varie differenze?).
ma Infatti ci sono molti diversi molte differenze tra il Cinese tradizionale e il cinese semplificato.
Qui abbiamo il nostro presidente, nostro legale le nostre leggi, la nostra terra e la nostra cultura,
sebbene ci sono siano molti gente molte persone stupide che stanno distruggendo la nostra cultura nostra.
Ma Taiwan ancora e' è ancora un'a isola bellissima.
Abbiamo una montagna bellissima che si chiama "yushan"(玉山)
Molte gente esterni persone straniere vogliono salire alla su questa montagna bellissima.
Anche Ci sono anche moltie città' convenienti.
Come la mia città, Taipei, dove c'é un traffico comodo   scorrevole. anche Ci sono anche molti negozi che aprono senza paura rischi e in cui puoi comprare i beni necessari quando vuoi.
Puoi andare al centro in metro velocemente.
In il Nel mio quartiere mio. c'e uno zoo molto famoso.
Vicino allo zoo c'e una funivia che puoi prendere sulla ti porta su una piccola collina dove puoi bevre il un te' molto buono.
Dopo il te, puoi fare una passeggiata in questa bella collina, e dalla cima puoi vedere la bellezza di tutto Taipei.
Insomma , in a Taipei ci sono molte cose divertenti da fare.

Aaah ok, I totally misunderstood your post francisco ;-)

Dear francisco, Tolkien would never have named one of his chatacters arthur dent, it doesn't sound enough "fantasy" :-P The hobbit you're talking about is Bilbo Begginis but you're right, seeing better the picture, the guy is the actor playing Bilbo's role in the movie or a double.

Hmmm.. the guy in your picture doesn't look like a neurscientist but more like a patient of neuroscientist or a guy who is seeing a neurscientist being captured by aliens...I am very tempted to check on google but I won't do it yet. I'll try to give my answer first.

You're french but here in Italki your name is Arthur Dent which sounds cleary english. Maybe that devil-haired guy is arthur dent?

Hegel would have answered: thought come first. I never liked Hegel so I say that language come first, just to disagree with him.

Putting this stupid syllogism logic aside, I think they proceed together when we talk about our mother language. I don't think and then speak or write in Italian, I think in Italian. When we consider languages we've learnt the matter is different, in my opinion. We can even become very fluent with a foreign language but we need to process a sort of translation mechanism, even though very very quickly(as if it was almost authomatic). Maybe the situation change if I speak always (and only) in that language for a long time but at the moment I hadn't the chance to do it (with English, for example), so I am not sure about it.

When someone tell me that a country ruled by monarchy isn't worse than a republic I cannot disagree. Also because concrete powers of a monarch over the daily life of citizens have almost disappeared in this current age. Furthermore in many countries with a king as head of the State, like Sweden, quality of life (including freedom rights of course) is much higher than anywhere else. My point is another one. The head of a state, whether it is monarchy or republic, should represent and identify with the people of a country and deal with the big issues relating it. But the British monarchy, unlike Norwegian, Spanish Japanese,etc.., sees a queen or a king as the most important public figure of countries like Australia or Canada visited by him very few times and tied to the value he/her rapresents much less than in UK. In the case of a serious institutional crisis in those countries, who is charged with resolving it? A monarch who is essentialy sobstituted by a governor? Or if his/her powers are very very limited what is the meaning of maintaining his/her role? The head of a state shouldn't be a faded of the past. It seems to me like someone is wearing an hawaiian shirt and bermuda shorts during a meeting of company board.
This is only a personal opinion as outsider and I'd really like to know what do you think (especially if you are Canadian, Australian,...).

@m-rk-s:  I tried to sing it but after 1min an advertising message (it seemed to me Cameron's voice but maybe I am wrong) which threatened to send me a gift box of the royal baby souvenirs...so I stopped. I know, I am a coward!

@Jura: thanks for your info! But as an Australian citizen do you pay something in taxes (even only few cents) to mantain the royal family? I didn't want to be argumentative with my questions (or...just a little bit :-P), it is only curiosity ;-)

@Alex: ahah, maybe in US and for sure in Italy we pay attention only to the big events and big scandals (or presumed ones) relating the British monarchy, but in UK I've noticed many tabloids, if they could, would report and show pictures also when one of the princes takes a shower.
Anyway, if I am not wrong, the whole house of Windsor has German roots, not only a princess, and changed its name due to the anti-German sentiment in the British empire during the 1st WW. So, in some way, Germany strong influence goes beyond the continental Europe :-P

My nephews will accept me to be sued (the defendant won't be physically present of course) only in the case the ICTU (italian chicken trade union) will do it so.