Anyone study Asian languages? I've studied edit...speak Mandarin for the past 2 years.
Interestingly, I live in the US but I use an Australian Chinese textbook, complete with the Chinese translation of Australia and places like Ayer's Rock.
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Anyone study Asian languages? I've studied edit...speak Mandarin for the past 2 years.
Interestingly, I live in the US but I use an Australian Chinese textbook, complete with the Chinese translation of Australia and places like Ayer's Rock.
i tried indonesian back when i was 12, but i've forgotten everything except how to ask for fried rice.
i've tried japanese back when i was in high school cuz it was offered as a college credited course during high school, but i had to drop out of the program cuz it was interfering wit my hs classes, and i started mixing words with spanish and japanese. it was okay, but this was about 3 or 4 years ago. other than that, at home, since my parents are Pakistani, i know the language, and growing up i was taught to write it. its been a while since i've written but i can probably still write , maybe read it too, but it'll b really hard.
I speak VERY basic Japanese and Indonesian.
I can count in Indonesian and call someone a cow in japanese.
I know how to answer the phone in Japanese....mushi mushi. :)
I once tried to learn japanese by myself, with books and things like that. I wanted to learn katakana so I could play video games imported from Japan. It was a complete failure so I let go. Too complicated for me.
I tried Japanese once but I just couldn't wrap my head around it. Germanic/roman languages FTW.
I know a bit of Tagalog (national Phillipine language), learning from my many phillipino co-workers .... most important phrase I learned is .... Hindi ko alam ang sinisabi mo (I don't understand what you're talking about) :)
+1 for everyone who has been/is studying foreign languages!
I know some really basic Korean: a handful of phonetic words, and I know how to count. I'd really like to learn more, but it's really not the most available language to study here.
[QUOTE=taz_rocks_miami]I know how to answer the phone in Japanese....mushi mushi. :)[/QUOTE]
baka, moshi moshi. :D owned.
i'm from Pakistan so my mother tongue is Urdu. i lived in dubai for 20 years and there ive seen people from all over the world either speak or understand it because Urdu is so easy. i also know a few words of arabic.
I'm Chinese, so I know Cantonese fluently, but I can't write at all. My grammar and writing skills totally suck. On the other hand, I'm pretty good at Latin and okay with French.
[QUOTE=NSXType-R]I'm Chinese, so I know Cantonese fluently[/QUOTE]Hardly a consistent conditional statement.
I am surprised that the most common Asian Languages of Mandarin, Hindi, and Arabic have not been spoken here, interesting.
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I am surprised that the most common Asian Languages of Mandarin..................... have not been spoken here, [/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=blingbling]Hardly a consistent conditional statement.
I am surprised that the most common Asian Languages of Mandarin, Hindi, and Arabic have not been spoken here, interesting.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean by that?
I'm sure Mandarin, Hindi and Arabic are spoken here, it's just that English is much easier for all of us to read. There's a lot of people from those areas on this forum.