What languages do you speak?

[the_randomizer]

Japanese really isn't that hard of a language. It just takes quite some dedication to bother learning.

This, a thousand times this. It's not super easy, no, but it's by no means impossible

 

[Vipera]

You think Japanese is hard, try Mandarin Chinese or Cantonese XD It's far worse than Japanese.

They all use different symbols that I can't be bothered to learn. I can communicate just fine with 26 letters. I dropped learning Russian for the same reason.

 

[the_randomizer]

They all use different symbols that I can't be bothered to learn. I can communicate just fine with 26 letters. I dropped learning Russian for the same reason.

Why do I even bother trying to explain

 

[VinsCool]

26 letters is fairly easy to understand. But it's their organisation which make foreigh languages difficult to learn

 

[Walker D]

Japanese really isn't that hard of a language. It just takes quite some dedication to bother learning.

I had Japanese classes, twice. Failed in all of them
shit ...that was probably cause I was having problems at the university at the time, and other shitty things ...but meh. (I'm still gonna learn this damn language!)

BTW, my main language is BR - Portuguese, and I can speak/understand Spanish well enough.

Edit: forgot about English, but haha ...it's kinda implicit already, isn't it?

 

[The Catboy]

I speak English, but I know bits and pieces of German and French.

 

[anhminh]

I can speak Vietnamese, English and some internet language like sarcasm, weaboo and meme.
All thank to internet.

 

[Azel]

French, English, German.
some Japanese.

 

[FAST6191]

"but my teacher"
I had similar things for French (at least until I managed to get myself kicked out of that class), however I figured I was there anyway and learned anyway. Only real problem I had was learning from a book meant my pronunciation was terrible, though given my English speaking voice is about flat as a witches tit that was not so bad.

I would like to learn Latin someday, so I could learn all other romanic languages

I do not know if it was because Latin was the third language I got to pick up or because of something else but I found it a key to not just languages with Latin roots but pretty much all other languages.

Latin is really really hard. I think you'd be better off learning Spanish, it's the third most spoken language in the world and it's actually a language that just makes a lot of sense. And it's close enough to other romanic languages, that you can at least have a sense of what they mean.

Really? I thought Latin, classical Latin rather than neo Latin at least, was fairly easy as it had the benefits of not having interacted with other languages for years (see that video from earlier).

They all use different symbols that I can't be bothered to learn. I can communicate just fine with 26 letters. I dropped learning Russian for the same reason.

Upper and lower case count as different symbols, you can also argue that diacritics and other marks constitute other symbols and digraphs (œ, æ and such) can all add up. With that combined you are looking at fairly similar numbers to Cryrillic and at least the Kana (Kanji being logographic mean you kind of treat them like words rather than letters).

 

[Vipera]

Upper and lower case count as different symbols, you can also argue that diacritics and other marks constitute other symbols and digraphs (œ, æ and such) can all add up. With that combined you are looking at fairly similar numbers to Cryrillic and at least the Kana (Kanji being logographic mean you kind of treat them like words rather than letters).

I refuse to believe that you are being serious. Comparing two sets of letters that mean the same exact thing and don't differ much from the other. Yes, it's very difficult to learn that i = I or u = U
Also please, don't talk about Latin being easy if you've never studied it. There's a reason why it's dead.

 

[FAST6191]

I have studied Latin, though I was probably the last year in the area I found myself that was not a Public school (public school in the UK = more or less private school elsewhere in the world, state school = ones that most people go to) to do it outside of after school clubs. As for dead it stuck around in various forms for a couple of thousand years after the Roman empire packed up and went east, not many "dead" languages can claim that feat.

I and i might be similar but a and A (though I am not sure what font you are reading that in) but several have no resemblance to the opposite case and let us not even start on what they sound like.

 

[Deleted User]

'murican is my only language

Which "'murican"? One of the many native languages? Aglic? Siouan?


fite me 1v1 irl m8

 

[Patxinco]

I speak Spanish, Catalan, English and French (doing B1 this year) and working in a campsite helps a BUNCH on the spoken part. Maybe i'll try with next with German or Dutch, cause in our campsite comes a lot of Dutch people...

Greetings to everyone ^^

 

[shakirmoledina]

I think its time I flaunt my language skills

1.) Katchi - an Indian language from katch : Fluent (native)
2.) Gujurati - an Indian language from gujrat - quite popular too : Fluent
3.) Urdu - pakistan's national language : Fluent
4.) Hindi - india's national language where spoken version is almost like urdu : Fluent
5.) Kiswahili - tanzania's national language : Fluent
6.) English - gbatemp's national language : Fluent
7.) Arabic - not fluent but can understand quite well and read very well :: this i learnt myself
8.) Persian - Iran's national language : Not fluent but can speak it and somehow understand it. This is due to the variance in spoken v written and speed of speaking :: this i studied too
9.) French - began few months back : Understand and can read many things but not confident enough to speak it well :: currently studying

In reality I can confidently say 6 languages, 2 I can manage and 1 I can impress.

Now if you were living in Tanzania coming from my background, the above list would have been "meh" to you. That's because

A.) I originally asian and hence 1-4 are normally known here
B.) I live and was born in Tanzania hence 5 is obvious
C.) Our syllabi is in 6
D.) Coming from Islamic background hence 7
E.) In contact with people from Iran hence 8
F.) Because no one here can speak or understand it but it's very useful in the world hence 9

My advice on learning languages (from my experience)
1.) There are many programs and I suggest the following path
Michel Thomas -> Rosetta Stone -> Pimsleur THEN finalize your reading and writing studies with Duolingo
2.) In the beginning don't worry about speaking but get "accustomed" with the words, sounds and culture. Soak your mind in it
3.) Break the language into parts and learn progressively. Don't go too fast. Aim for 6 months but try doing it faster.
4.) When partially fluent, watch movies or videos to get the "spoken" form of the language because usually its something else. There's more pressure then.
5.) Don't worry about making mistakes be it grammatical or whatsoever. Aim to understand the language first especially listening then start speaking.
6.) I've failed in speaking maybe because I ain't such an outspoken person hence my focus has been on listening and reading. THEREFORE learn what you will use be it skill type (listening,reading etc) OR the vocabulary (don't focus on scientific terms if you just want to get into casual conversation)

 

[Deleted User]

I can speak Vietnamese, English and some internet language like sarcasm, weaboo and meme.
All thank to internet.

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[Sheimi]

I meant to add this to my other post. irl I cannot pronounce some words correctly in English despite it being my primary language. One is Australia, another is failure, some words with a "L" in it.

This, a thousand times this. It's not super easy, no, but it's by no means impossible

I only find it hard if I do not keep practicing the language.

 

[Blaze163]

I've more or less mastered English, but then I have had nearly 28 years at it so that's to be expected. I know a few phrases in Japanese that I only learned to flirt with the cute Japanese girl at my local Game store a few years ago and haven't used in years so my pronunciation would probably be considered highly offensive. My wife and I speak Al Bhed from FFX when we need to communicate something in secret but I doubt that counts. I can also speak whatever butchered version of English my brother in law speaks. He's not foreign or anything, just incredibly stupid.

 

[Deleted User]

My wife and I speak Al Bhed from FFX when we need to communicate something in secret but I doubt that counts.

I think Al Bhed counts. imo it's still considered a language.

 

[Lucifer666]

English's my first language, Arabic's my native language, and I can speak French too

Y también yo aprendo Español.

edit: I can understand a lick of Japanese but gosh to the folks here complaining about how hard it is, you haven't tried Arabic. holy **** is that hard.

 

[sarkwalvein]

They all use different symbols that I can't be bothered to learn. I can communicate just fine with 26 letters. I dropped learning Russian for the same reason.

You can always try to learn Polish. It is probably the nearest you will get to Russian with Latin alphabet.