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Okayy, simple topic. Basically, a topic about language in general. Whether you know more than one, if you're learning about one, what you know, what you'd like to know. Let's start with something simple.

Me. My mother speaks spanish fluently (woo hooo she never taught me) However, i took spanish in school so...i guess that's okay. I am quite literate in spanish, can read and write it, but it's hard for me to speak it (i think too much). I do sound native though, guess it's because my mother's spanish =] As of right now, i'm trying to teach myself japanese.

Japanese is an interesting yet complicated language. There are three different writing systems, and, if you want to learn it, you'd have to be very dedicated to learning it.

So, what languages do you know? Or, what are you learning?

oh, and, quick question, would anyone like to be a language study partner with me?

Aaand, anything you'd like to share with people? Such as, random things to say in different languages that would be fun to know (nothing vulgar, please)

Well, I'm still learning a bit of French and Italian. I'm hoping to learn other languages, too. ^^

Here's all the langages I'm going to know in the future. (I'll put weither I've learned it yet or not.)

English - Duh, Learned. XD

French - Learning

Italian - Learning

German - Not learned

Spanish - Not learned

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Now, I also know a little bit of Japanese. ^^ However, I sorta gave up right now. =/ Too challenging.

Oooh very cool O: i think learning spanish as well as italian and french would be good; they're all so extremely similar that (i think) they're easiest to learn together.

German....eh, i never liked the language too much xD my friend's learning it, which is cool i suppose. I want to learn it so i could travel and such, also, for job purposes. :B

go learn japanese >:D

Wow. I learned something new today.

I'm positive the word grammar is the hardest of the language, hands down! But, doesn't the Japanese spoken language kind of throw you off, too? In Japanese, they say words that are the same thing most of the time, but with different meanings. I could, myself, find it hard to understand. That's why I have most of the words learned, but I can't grasp all the meanings and ways of speaking it. (Like, the words are the same, but you can tell the difference by listening how it's said. Now for me, I have trouble doing that. That's a major hearing problem I have... oh well.)

French:learning

German:learning

Spanish:learning

Russian:learning

All other languages:learning

I only really know English and bad english. xD
I tried learning French but that sorta died and recently want to try learn Italian again...mainly because a new forum I found for an awesome comic is primarily Italian and I am having to use an online translator. :/

Over the next few years I'm goign to be learning some langauges. French, German and Spanish are on the table right now.

(didn't read all of it, mostly skimmed)

Yeah, the writing systems are extremely difficult, and of course, me being so smart, decided to learn them first. I don't know too much japanese (i mean, actually speaking it) i'm just trying to get the writing system down.

The only reason i adore hiragana and katakana is that they're all phonetic, so if i ever forget a kanji (which, every body does) i can plug in hiragana and they'll obviously understand it.

What i also find quite bothersome is that (as Sep stated) is that japanese lacks gender, the, and all those other fun things that english/french/spanish etc have. And the word order, of course, it rather confusing for anyone, in my opinion. However, learning a language that is so different--with a completely different alphabet too--is a great challenge, and, since it's so new and fresh, i'm even more interested in learning it. Which, is always a good thing.

Anyway, as for languages in general, i've heard english is rather hard to learn, mostly because there are so many 'exceptions' in the language, and then there's the controversy of spanish and french: which one is easier? I hear these sort of arguments a lot lol.

Personally, i think any language is difficult to learn, and it's especially difficult if you DON'T want to learn it. Although, the experience is incredible. What's even more fun is learning slang in different languages. Gahh, language is an incredible thing >:D

That'd be cool. ^^ Thanks.

I don't have MSN, so it would probably have to be this topic or pm's.

For me:

English = Duh! or am I talking Welsh? XDD
French = Learning
Italian = Sorta learning, however not that much.
Spansih = Pfft... Never going to try.
Japanese = Nu
Chinese = I would, however my handwriting is NO where near... The basic set of neatness.

I know enough Spanish to hold a conversation and understand what fluent speakers are saying.

And I'm learning Japanese. So far, I only know basic Hiragana and I'm trying to get that down before I even think about trying Kanji D:

It's fun to learn. I'll probably be taking it next year too :3