How many language can you speak?
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Really? So am I. And I agree 100% that it is extremely difficult. But after going to China it's making a lot more sense to me now. Wow, this post was in response to .jpg's post. It really moved down far.
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2 and 1/2 English French Some (very limited) Italian
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.jpg wrote:
I am currently leaning Chinese.
When you're done with that, post an article tutorial;P. I've always wanted to learn Chinese, but never could make myself, plus couldnt find enough resurceresources anywhere..maybe wasnt looking hard enough.
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serbian, croatian (as a native language), hungarian (as a second native lang), english (naturally :-), a little bit of german, and currenly learning french. In two years time I plan to start learning spanish. Speaking of language, I still haven't done my french homework and I have a lesson tommorow. :( I'm off to work... :->
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3 - English, pig latin, and double talk
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.jpg wrote:
I am currently leaning Chinese.
When you're done with that, post an article tutorial;P. I've always wanted to learn Chinese, but never could make myself, plus couldnt find enough resurceresources anywhere..maybe wasnt looking hard enough.
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Perhaps the easiest Chinese char to learn are, one, two, and three. Can never forget once I leaned. I am currently able to read and write Chinese like a grade 2. Still a far way to go. Anyway, unlike most language learning experience I had, I actually found it fun to learn Chinese.
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English, Swedish, Spanish, Finnish and some German. Trying to learn Portuguese. jhaga
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Four and learning the fourth... Spanish, English, Portuguese (which actually is really similar to spanish), Nahuatl and I'm learning German. I learned Nahuatl some time ago; the problem with a death language is mainly... that it's dead. So, new words from 1520's to now are simply in spanish. For example, tv, radio, autobus, etc. which makes it simpler. But the pronuntiation is quite difficult. In here[^], I blogged a Nahuatl poem, and it has both a spanish and english translation. German is really a hard language, but although I can only say things in simple present, I'm going a little fast.
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Some people found Japanese easy to learn while some don't. The issue is the Japanese grammar. When we say "I am screwed"; in Japanese, it is like "I screwed am".
.jpg wrote:
When we say "I am screwed"; in Japanese, it is like "I screwed am"
That is not the hard part. :~ Not that different from many other western languages. The really hard part about Japanese are the different languages within the language. Depending on who you talk to, you use different sets of words (varying degrees of politeness). And then there's the problem of lack of association. Western languages have borrowed so much from each other, it's often possible to find likenesses in the languages, which may help. No such thing with Japanese.
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English, Swedish, Spanish, Finnish and some German. Trying to learn Portuguese. jhaga
It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. A[man], seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. — business! - I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
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Portuguese (native speaker), English, some Spanish and Italian (I can see a movie without subtitles in both languages and understand almost everything), and notions of German.
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Two besides english fluently: French & Spanish. I speak a couple terribly: Korean, Japanese, Tagalog &, Ilokano.
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.jpg wrote:
When we say "I am screwed"; in Japanese, it is like "I screwed am"
That is not the hard part. :~ Not that different from many other western languages. The really hard part about Japanese are the different languages within the language. Depending on who you talk to, you use different sets of words (varying degrees of politeness). And then there's the problem of lack of association. Western languages have borrowed so much from each other, it's often possible to find likenesses in the languages, which may help. No such thing with Japanese.
-- Made From Meat By-Products
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I used to be fluent in Dutch, French, and Afrikaans - but so out of practise with them now that I wouldn't quite say that I "speak" them. I think I'd like to learn Spanish some day.
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So which ones do you speak? I speak English and German (though I screw it up a good bit).
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Katakana and Hiragana are easy. Kanji is a nightmare.. :sigh:
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