What Languages Do You Speak?

[Walky]

Spanish (native)
English (pretty good actually)
...and I can read Hiragana, Katakana and some simple Kanji

Same here, but I forgot most of the japanese I knew (mostly Hiragana)... I just didn't care much about it anymore.

I think most spanish-speakers can understand some portuguese too (but not speak it).

I know some QBasic, PIC Basic, and I knew Pascal but forgot most of it (it's almost the same as Basic, anyway) 

Should I learn Italian? I've been italian since last year (it should have been a couple of years sooner, but paperwork takes time it seems... )


I actually learned english by playing NES! (I later perfected it when Internet arrived).

This story is happy end 

[nintendodork]

English (pretty good actually)

Pretty good?  You're the only person I know who knows how to write disks and can explain it in an easy-to-understand way even though you haven't bothered to yet in English

[son_ov_hades]

Spanish (native)
English (pretty good actually)
...and I can read Hiragana, Katakana and some simple Kanji

Same here, but I forgot most of the japanese I knew (mostly Hiragana)... I just didn't care much about it anymore.

I think most spanish-speakers can understand some portuguese too (but not speak it).

I know some QBasic, PIC Basic, and I knew Pascal but forgot most of it (it's almost the same as Basic, anyway) 

Should I learn Italian? I've been italian since last year (it should have been a couple of years sooner, but paperwork takes time it seems... )


I actually learned english by playing NES! (I later perfected it when Internet arrived).

This story is happy end 

I still find it amazing that you learned English from the NES. I haven't learned any Japanese from the Famicom  .

[nintendodork]

I think it's a little easier to learn English from the NES than Japanese from the Famicom, since the Japanese language has more alterations and history..and people from other countries can learn English easier instead of vice-versa

[manuel]

You have to have basics in the language first. If you have some basics in Japanese you can very well learn something from Famicom and other video games.

[son_ov_hades]

I think it's a little easier to learn English from the NES than Japanese from the Famicom, since the Japanese language has more alterations and history..and people from other countries can learn English easier instead of vice-versa

Learning English is not easier than learning any other language. English has more in common with the Germanic languages and therefore is easier for native Germanic speakers. However, ask someone who speaks Arabic, Japanese, or Russian how easy English is.

[manuel]

Any language learned from scratch is hard.
That's what they all have in common.

[shoggoth80]

I speak English
Ich kann nicht so gut Deutsch sprechen.
BUT I am learning, I am only in my second quarter.
Noch, liebe ich meine Deutsch Kurs.

[manuel]

Viel Spass im Deutschunterricht.   

[shoggoth80]

Ja! Ich gehe nach Mathematik bei Deutsch...
I TRY not to be braindead in class...
but I'm also in Calculus...
German is my fun class. The other classes are required.

But I AM getting off topic a little bit here.

[son_ov_hades]

Deutsch ist sehr Krieg!

[nintendodork]

Das, die, und der sind alle artikel!  woot

[nurd]

Ich bin auslander und spreche nicht gut Deutsch.

[shoggoth80]

"Das, die, und der sind alle artikel!"
Nein...
Den. der, dem
Depends on whether you are going Nominativ,  Akkusativ, oder Dativ.
That bit gets a little confusing at times. Makes me glad that I take decent notes!

[nintendodork]

Ehh, I just got it in a free vocabulary lesson from Manuel   So now, I can say a whole SENTENCE in German!