I speak English and Japanese and am learning Croatian.

[Removed Japanese since it causes errors on TIF]

 

Fluent in Japanese in English. Dropped French to focus on my Japanese after two years.

I know a lot of people who claim to be fluent in Japanese, yet only know a few choice sentences or words. How come everyone wants people to think they knot Japanese?

I know a lot of people who claim to be fluent in Japanese, yet only know a few choice sentences or words. How come everyone wants people to think they knot Japanese?

 

 

 

Those are usually some japan-freak otakus (no offense). I studied japanese, mostly speech (but also a significant amount of written kanji+ hiragana & katakana) for some 4 years out of sheer interest, and I don't even mention it in my 'language roster' anywhere I go. It's too difficult especially when native japanese young people often speak in slang which further complicates things.

 

 

 

Unless you can hold a solid conversation with a native speaker of the language you claim to know, you are not fluent in that language nor do you 'know' it. Sorry.

 

 

 

There are tons of other languages I know the basics of languages like spanish, french, etc... But I would never go around claiming I know the language just based on knowing some words and the general structure of the language.

 

 

 

You "know" a language and can put it on your CV if you can help out a customer, take down their addresses/phone numbers, present products to them, etc... Not if you just know a few words and no native could possibly have a normal convo with you.

I know a lot of people who claim to be fluent in Japanese, yet only know a few choice sentences or words. How come everyone wants people to think they knot Japanese?

 

Because weeaboos. And also Japan is the godliest of all countries because japan.

 

I imagine as far as "knowing japanese" goes its of these few words; pocky, sugoi, neko, kawaii and baka.

 

Knowing 5 words = fluent, obviously.

 

 

 

[Removed Japanese since it causes errors on TIF]

 

Fluent in Japanese in English. Dropped French to focus on my Japanese after two years.

 

Yeah, TIF doesnt support much outside of the standard English alphabet. And romanji is horrible.

 

 

[i hope youre using a dark skin, because otherwise you wont see that.]

Eh... how about both of you dropped the discussion on Spanish grammar, seeing it's not your mother tongue? ;)

 

 

It's funny listening to people trying to speak your native language. Or arguing about it.

 

Chinese is offered at my school, it's fun listening in on the class.

I don't pay attention to my own Chinese classes.I communicate to my teacher by dictating what I want in Hokkien/English to a friend who writes it in Chinese for the teacher to read.

 

 

 

By the way Taiwanese=Hokkien.Taiwan nang gong Hokkien buay.Gah li ah bu gong.(Tell your mother the first sentence.Thats basically what the second sentence says)

I speak Mother tongue a Ghanaian language fluently.

 

I also speak patois fluently (broken French)

 

I am in my 4th year of learning German and I have learnt Spanish for 2 years.

 

Id like to someday learn standard French.

Yo estudio en la clase de espanol (can't get the squiggly thing over the N). Tu eres feo. :

 

 

 

I'm in the lowest Spanish class at my high school. I plan to take all 4 years of it because I really need to know a second language, and living near Chicago where there is a high Latino population, knowing Spanish can be a deciding factor in many jobs.

Yo estudio en la clase de espanol (can't get the squiggly thing over the N). Tu eres feo. :

 

 

 

I'm in the lowest Spanish class at my high school. I plan to take all 4 years of it because I really need to know a second language, and living near Chicago where there is a high Latino population, knowing Spanish can be a deciding factor in many jobs.

 

 

 

Estudio* Estoy feo* ;)

I know a lot of people who claim to be fluent in Japanese, yet only know a few choice sentences or words. How come everyone wants people to think they knot Japanese?

 

Because we think we're turning Japanese we think we're turning Japanese we really think so. Everyone around us is a total stranger, toooo.

I ruv you too.

I know a lot of people who claim to be fluent in Japanese, yet only know a few choice sentences or words. How come everyone wants people to think they knot Japanese?

 

Because we think we're turning Japanese we think we're turning Japanese we really think so. Everyone around us is a total stranger, toooo.

 

 

 

 

 

You make me smile.

I speak fluent English and American. (In my eyes, they're two different languages)

 

 

 

I know some Spanish. (OK, like 15 words and my mom is from Puerto Rico and quite a few of my class is Hispanic)

My native language is American English, and I know conversational Spanish.

 

 

 

Currently, I am studying Lithuanian. I want to study Greek but the gender and cases freak me out. But I don't understand why I would be freaked out as I've attempted with some luck to learn some Serbian. I've also studied some Swedish, but I can't do much but form basic questions and count to 100. I've also tried my hands at German, French, Italian, Romanian, Dutch, Czech, Finnish, and Akkadian, but I can't manage to stick to them. I would love to study formally the Russian language, as of now I can only read and write the Cyrillic script.

 

 

 

So what languages do you speak? What languages are you currently studying? And what languages do you want to learn?

ZOMG i'M LITHUANIAN ( AND SPEAK IT) =P

I'm fluent in english and I'm learning spanish and Russian, though my school doesn't offer a Russian class I have to learn it on my computer.

I notice a lot of people saying they have "studied" more than 4 languages. What do you count as having studied them? Do you mean you took a class with a real instructor in them, or you bought a self-teaching CD on the language?

English and a little spanish. I wish I could speak more, but I'm not all that good with languages.

My Native language is Swedish.

 

 

 

I can speak swedish, persian, english, some hebrew, a good portion of french, and some spanish.

Grew up speaking English, but I learned Spanish at a pretty young age (8), so I'm pretty proficient with that. I take Spanish in school, but I'm also studying German and Japanese outside of school.

I notice a lot of people saying they have "studied" more than 4 languages. What do you count as having studied them? Do you mean you took a class with a real instructor in them, or you bought a self-teaching CD on the language?

 

 

 

Active study in all four areas: Writing, Reading, Speaking, and Listening.

 

 

 

I'm also going to start leaning German as soon as I can find a free interactive site to learn it on.

I notice a lot of people saying they have "studied" more than 4 languages. What do you count as having studied them? Do you mean you took a class with a real instructor in them, or you bought a self-teaching CD on the language?

 

Self-taught Italian with television and movies, here. And books. Spanish, I'm taking a class in school (but I'm not doing great, my testing schools are terrible because of all the similarities between Italian and Spanish that trip you up >_<).

I speak fluent English and American. (In my eyes, they're two different languages)

 

 

 

I know some Spanish. (OK, like 15 words and my mom is from Puerto Rico and quite a few of my class is Hispanic)

 

 

 

 

 

Yea, omg, no offence to any UK people. BUt I can't stand it when I see 'armour,' 'labour,' and 'daemon.' Cause I'm so used to see it differently.

My native language is Finnish.

 

 

 

I studied English, Swedish and French.

 

 

 

I can speak English quite well, it's the only foreign language I really get to use.

 

 

 

Only studied Swedish because it's compulsory here. The language isn't too hard but I had zero motivation to learn it so I can't really speak it properly.

 

 

 

After taking French for 7 years I decided to quit it. Was frustrating not being able to handle it properly even after so many years so I gave up. I know, such a waste.

I speak fluent English and American. (In my eyes, they're two different languages)

 

 

 

I know some Spanish. (OK, like 15 words and my mom is from Puerto Rico and quite a few of my class is Hispanic)

 

 

 

 

 

Yea, omg, no offence to any UK people. BUt I can't stand it when I see 'armour,' 'labour,' and 'daemon.' Cause I'm so used to see it differently.

 

No worries. It annoys me equally as much when I hear "mom". Man, that word grates. :?