Anyone else know another language?

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Currently using the app Pimsleur to learn Dutch. Don't ask me why I chose this language just picked one rather than French or German.

On my 3rd day. Just feeling like upping up some skills.

How long did it take for you to feel comfortable?

 

[Bleed The Freak]

What is wrong with y'all. Yeah you went straight to ignore button with that sick stuff

 

[Bleed The Freak]

A little Spanish, and I'm learning Japanese.

Heard Japanese is very hard to learn

 

[boogers]

Been learning Spanish for a lil minute but im not fluent

theres tons of free apps of varying quality to help you practice and study. i may have some rosetta stone files in my archive if youre interested.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

theres tons of free apps of varying quality to help you practice and study. i may have some rosetta stone files in my archive if youre interested.

Yeah man the days of making excuses of not learning a new language are done. Way too many apps out now. Include me in that convo too cause I ain't took as much advantage.

 

[boogers]

Yeah man the days of making excuses of not learning a new language are done. Way too many apps out now. Include me in that convo too cause I ain't took as much advantage.

if you need something in particular my inbox is always open

 

[HabitualChiller]

Heard Japanese is very hard to learn

For kats whose native language is English, yes:

• Completely different syntax; subject - object- verb instead of SVO
• They have 3 writing systems (syllabaries) that you have to learn ( Hiragana [what I'm on right now], Katakana [for foreign words], and Kanji [Chinese symbols] ). You skip one ot those and you're fúcked. Hiragana and Katakana ( both have 46 unique characters, but in actuality, you need to remember the sounds characters for 208 combined characters... and that's the easy part of Japanese ) are primarily used for grammatical purposes, and Kanji have specific meanings and can have 2 or more readings for each one. You know to know 20,000 Kanji in order to be considered literate in Japanese.
• Japanese people use A LOT of onomatopoeia in their daily speech.
• Them níggas barely utilize punctuation and spacing. All 3 writing systems can be written back-to-back with no commas or anything. The most punctuation that you'll see will be a period of exclamation mark.

There are a lot more differences, but I'm not typing all of that.

If you want to know why it's so complicated, just know that the Japanese had a period where being literate was considered an elite-only thing, so they intentionally made it complicated and kept it like that for generations until some Japanese women came up with Hiragana to make it more... palatable. The Japanese government actually simplified the language after WW2, but it's still a beast.

The absolute BEST way to learn it is to go to a language school in Japan, and immerse yourself in the language and culture. A lot of native Japanese speakers feel that that's the only way.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Yo hablo inglés y español.

 

[Uachet]

A bit of Spanish. Knew more when I was younger, especially when I lived in L.A. I had to know when they were talking crap about me.

There is a solution now for the language gap that I will try out. Just got me some Meta Ray-Ban glasses that I hear can convert foreign languages into english in my ear. I am looking forward to see how well it works once they are delivered in a week or so.

 

[boogers]

• Japanese people use A LOT of onomatopoeia in their daily speech.

yea i noticed this from video games lol

Japanese onomatopoeia and their meanings - Gengo

Aside from manga fans, most people probably don’t realize that the Japanese language can be animated and lively. Japanese has over 1,000 onomatopoeia with syllabic and repetitive words—that’s thrice more than in English! Some words might not have English equivalents, since languages are often...

gengo.com

There is a solution now for the language gap that I will try out. Just got me some Meta Ray-Ban glasses that I hear can convert foreign languages into english in my ear. I am looking forward to see how well it works once they are delivered in a week or so.

that sounds cool but the privacy issues are concerning. is there a button you have to hold, or is it activated by a language other than english (meaning its listening 24/7)?

 

[Gritsngravy]

Das ist wunderbar!

Wie gehts?

I’m just guessing but

“That is wonderful! What’s good?”

 

[Gritsngravy]

Ist alles güt

Are you saying

“It’s all good”

 

[Gritsngravy]

@ most of these answers.


Haitian Kreyol
Enough Spanish not to be passport bro'd in Colombia
Some Lingala
Some Twi
and some Kiswahili.

Mambo vipi, kaka.

I mean I would imagine most of us in America so Spanish is probably the appropriate answer, I took two semesters worth of French because of africa but I had a bad teacher so I can really only read a little bit of it right now

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Are you saying

“It’s all good”

Ja
(Yh)
My German is basic however its pretty close to English
Example

Twelve is Zwolf

Telephone number is Telefonnummer

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Japanese and Tagalog