Lance Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 What other languages are you guys learning/ proficient at? I started learning Japanese this year for my foreign language credit. Right now I'm just focusing on Romaji (roman letters) but it's still a bit confusing and complicated. Anyway I was just curious what other languages (besides English) everybody speaks. Any comments on learning Japanese?
bloodhound Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 I speak a few other non major languages. like Urdu, Indian, Nepalese. used to speak Russian. learnt some French in school, but forgotten
Gilded Posted October 7, 2004 Posted October 7, 2004 Finnish, Swedish (obligatory since Finland is a two-language country :< ), and of course English... That's about it. A couple of words here and there but those are the only ones I'm good at. By the way, Finnish is a bitch to learn if you haven't learned it since you were a kid, and even if you did. "järjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään" <- a single word of Finnish, meaning something like "even without one's disability of not systematizing" It's incredible how much stuff you can cram in a single word.
YT2095 Posted October 8, 2004 Posted October 8, 2004 English and Russian, but am currently learning a few simple words and phrases in Italian and Bagladeshi from a few fellow gardeners I can speak a little Japanese, German and French, but am not in anyway fluent.
Lance Posted October 8, 2004 Author Posted October 8, 2004 I feel ignorant when I know 1.000001 languages and everybody else knows 2-6. Sheesh. How much Japanese do you know YT? I picked it because I don’t know anybody else who knows it and it seems like the hardest choice. I also wouldn’t mind knowing what the little people running away from Godzilla are saying. I wonder what it would be like to major in Japanese...
Skye Posted October 8, 2004 Posted October 8, 2004 I wonder what it would be like to major in Japanese... So you want to learn Japanese...
Lance Posted October 8, 2004 Author Posted October 8, 2004 So you want to learn Japanese... yea I saw that before I started. Thats pretty funny.
Lance Posted October 8, 2004 Author Posted October 8, 2004 English Sentence: Jane went to the school. Same Sentence In Japanese: School Jane To Went Monkey Apple Carbeurator. lol...
MolecularMan14 Posted October 8, 2004 Posted October 8, 2004 4 yrs Spanish 3 yrs Japanese learning 1st year of German Oh, and some english whenever it comes up
drz Posted October 8, 2004 Posted October 8, 2004 I've kinda been trying to learn Japanese on my own free time, but its a rather tough language. I got a few spoken phrases down, sounds like I say a lot, but it means little. I was reading about a english to japanese and back voico translator being made by NEC. Believe it was at http://www.newscientist.com
YT2095 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 How much Japanese do you know YT? not a whole bunch, I bought one of these tourist word and phrase books about 15 years ago and made myself read it all and try to memorise it. some of it actualy sunk in
boris_73 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 YT where do you learn to speak russian i would love to be able to speak russian and i have a russian name if anybody wants to here it its Richard James Boris Wilkinson-Lowe how great of a name is that
Lance Posted October 9, 2004 Author Posted October 9, 2004 YT where do you learn to speak russian i would love to be able to speak russian and i have a russian name if anybody wants to here it its Richard James Boris[/u'] Wilkinson-Lowe how great of a name is that Pretty great. If youre learning a new (hard) language I would recomend Rosetta Stone.Although it is a bit expensive.
Gilded Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 http://www.unforgettablelanguages.com/frames_a14.html rofl It's always fun to see how Finnish words are given in an English phonetical form.
boris_73 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 apart fom russian which i will love to learn which other language would be a usefull one to learn
boris_73 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 plus do they sell Rosetta Stone in england because im sure my parents would get me that for christmas or something,
Gilded Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 "apart fom russian which i will love to learn which other language would be a usefull one to learn" In the holy name of marshmallows, don't even bother to learn Finnish. It's bloody awful.
boris_73 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 i looked on the website which you posted it does'nt look that bad, the words seem easy enough to pronounce
Gilded Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 The pronounciation is quite easy, since everything is said as it's written (unlike in most languages), that's the reason we don't have spelling competitions here like they have in US. But the other stuff isn't so nice. The "cases" in Finnish is something they probably practice in Hell. Like "omenassa" which means inside an apple, and "omenalle" which means to an apple. Then there are exceptions to nouns and verbs, and compound words that will drive an average man insane.
Lance Posted October 9, 2004 Author Posted October 9, 2004 plus do they sell Rosetta Stone in england because im sure my parents would get me that for christmas or something, I'm not sure. I bought the japanese version from that web site. I'm sure they would ship to england.
boris_73 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 yes well...... i think i'll leave that language alone i hope Russian is reasonably easy
boris_73 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 how well is it for learning languages as it helped you alot
Lance Posted October 9, 2004 Author Posted October 9, 2004 how well is it for learning languages as it helped you alot I think its great, although I just started recently. It makes learning really easy. I'm waiting for my japanase dictionary and grammer book to come in the mail. But, like I said, right now im just focusing on romaji so I cant read those other weird looking letters. Ramaji is japanese writen in roman (english) letters. like 'otokonohito' (man).
boris_73 Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 im definatley leaving japaneese alone but i will pester my parents to get the level 1 and 2 learning Russian language for christmas i mean you carnt put a price on learning a language can you, i have my ways of persuading my parents, but only with educational stuff,
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