What languages do you know?

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:39 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i'm spanish, so i know spanish

i also know catalan, galego, euskera, french, english and i'm learning japanese and chinese @_@

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I can pick up... hm, maybe 6-70% of most Jdramas, obviously some have more simple/common phrases in the dialog than others. I'm takign this as my second major in college, have studdied it for a year and 1/4 in college, and a little over a year on my own before that.

I'm thinking of learning chinese, written at least, after japanese. I mean hey, I'll know kanji which is VERY similar to chinese characters... though annoyingly not always identical.

Native english, and was conversational level in spanish, though I've gotten really rusty... Not that spanish is useful on this site anyway. Tongue

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I've got this Japanese workbook where the explanations are in Japanese, English and Chinese... I only notice a few similarites between Japanese and Chinese... Then there's the whole pronunciation thing. I'm sure you could do it, but I kinda doubt knowing Japanese first would make it all that easy...

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hmmz i chose none of the above cuz i speak fluently Vietnamese and thats it haha but i sooo wanna learn chinese both mandarin and cantonese...that is my goal..i will complete it sooner or later.....

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I can speak/write a bit/read a bit Vietnamese...

I've been pick up random Japanese phases and Korean phases.

But I must rely on subtitles sadly.

(I wish I could read Chinese)

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Fluent in:
Spanish
English

I know some / a lot in:
Japanese
Korean
Greek
Italian
French
Cantonese

But unless I'm watching Mexican soaps (American ones suck and never end), i need my lovely subs to watch dramas

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:13 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

English is the only thing I know 100% fluently.

Spanish I'm fairly proficient at. I can converse, read newspapers / novels, and if I concentrate watch television programs in it with no further difficulty. But I've gotten rusty in conversation for lack of use--reading and writing's still there, though.

Japanese I've been studying for about 5-6 years now and can converse fairly well and read a few novels (understanding about 70-80% depending on the subject). I don't mind watching raws or subtitles; but if there's an option I'll pick subtitles to give myself less work to do (and show it to other people). KF

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Korean and English.

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hmm.....
standard-languages:

german
french
english

all three fluently

japanese quite OK, but i'm better at writing/reading than listening-understanding. just because i have nobody to speak with here Crying

but sometimes i meet japanese friends who are living in other cities, so with them.. i speak japanese. but i still need subs to understand everything.. (of course not for my friends, just for movies/dramas Laugh

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and because of japanese i can read some chinese. so i can navigate through chinese websites and understand some written chinese.
i also learned hangul, so i can read it, but don't understand a single word Tongue

only words that are similar in korean and japanese i can understand when reading hangul on f.i. websites. like. yaksok -> yakusoku, umgak -> ongaku... etc.
but i want to learn chinese and korean after becoming able to speak/understand japanese like a native speaker.. next year, i hope, this will happen, when i go to japan for one year Mr. Green

PS: of course, knowing german makes it possible for me to read dutch.. and understand it.. sometimes well.. sometimes not so well ;)
and i can understand some spoken italian, but especially written italian. but i cannot produce a single sentence by myself... spanish is also a understandable.. when written.
all that.. thanks to my french knowledge + latin classes Roll Eyes

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i'm White - British so i only know English. i rely on English subs although i do understand a few words of japanese. i mainly know swear words in Cantonese too. i really want to learn an asian language but there is'nt any call for asian languages where i live. there are some schools in Leicester , Nuneaton and st. neots (st. neots being the closest, but without transport i'm screwed) as i live near cambs i really thought that there might be a school, but seeing as most of Cambridgeshire is asian and going to Uni, why would they have a college to teach an asian lang. sort of jarrs me off

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Swedish, English, Five years of studying German (Can speak kind of good) and I've picked up some Korean.

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm fluent in English and Khmer (better with the former than the latter, still have a rough asian accent though).

I know some japanese, and used to know spanish (took like 7yrs worth, aced every test, but I don't understand a word of it now) It's fun messing with people who don't know what race I am. I've been thought to be mexican, spanish, vietnamese, chinese, and white (although that last one confuses me a little, my white friends think I look half-white for some reason) Sad

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I think almost anyone is at least well-versed in 2 languages this days (see how we evolved Neutral

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Anyway, I am fluent in English, Chinese and Indonesian language. about 50% versed in the dialects Cantonese and Hokkian (sounds a bit like Taiwanese). I really liked to learn Japanese or Korean and in addition a European language (but I think I am well too old to absorb linguistic skills well anymore)

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I though you speak english in Hawaii Shocked

I mean Kiku TV has english subs for the japanse drama they show.. Im confused now!

Persian, I had to learn it cuz I was born in Iran and now I dont use it much since I live in sweden! but well there are persian movies that look pretty nice so maybe and I love the persian music so maybe its not a total waste..
Arabic, hate it cuz it sounds UGLY.. my parents lived in Iraq for a while I learned that too.. I think Its a waste I did!
Swedish, I was forced to learn this horrible language cuz my parents moved to sweden.. Its not that bad but I just dont like it so maybe I'll move to another country Crazy

English, well maybe the best language or ah its just useful one
German, belive it or not I like it!