Languages

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:05 pm

I've been a baaaad language monkey.
I got my Bachelor's in German, but also took two years of French, and a year of Russian.
Sadly, the only time I seem to use the German, is when my husband needs something technical translated. Like last night, something about how well this program would work with his Linux.

It's been seventeen years, and it all ruuuusty. Heck, I think I know more Japanese from watching anime, than I remember of Russian. And I have forgotten most all of the Marshallese I learned while we were there. Baaaad Leah.

So... fluent in English, but know just enough of a few other languages to be confused and take too long to respond in another language due to having to sift through the languages and remember the words.

"Wait, is that the French word, or the Russian?"

Belldandy · Post by **Belldandy** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:20 am

English with a little basic conversational Spanish thrown in. And about two bad words in Tagalog >.<

dude_moose · Post by **dude_moose** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:06 am

English is my native language, and I'm probably at the mid/lower end of advanced Japanese (I took the JLPT 2-kyuu in December and thought I did ok. I'm in my 8th semester of Japanese and have taken like 44 credits of it so far >.<). I can read pretty much anything non-technical with a dictionary and get my thoughts across in writing pretty well. I need to work on my kanji and advanced grammar though

I spent last year in Japan, so my conversation skills are alright. I have a hard time talking about anything too specialized because I don't have the vocab. I also took a class where I learned a little about Classical Japanese, and I know enough about it that I could decipher some of it with proper reference materials.

iriakun · Post by **iriakun** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:35 pm

French mothertongue, fluent in Japanese, English and Spanish...that's enough I guess

The best way is to live in the country for at least one or several years.

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:07 pm

English is my native tongue and probably the only language I will ever speak, but.....

We lived with my grandmother when I was growing up and she taught Latin and I had classes thru high school, so I can read pretty well in all of the romance languages.

My brain will not rearrange things quickly enough to speak any of them. I have been told that I have a berlin accent when my Faire character parrots the few phrases that I use for my character.

miz ducky · Post by **miz ducky** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:47 pm

I took a couple years of French but never took it seriously in school and never remembered much.

In Hawaii I took 3 terms of Japanese. I can read all Hiragana and Katakana, and about 200 or so kanji (as long as the writing is clear, some handwriting is hard to tell). If I had a chance to really have regular conversations I could become much more comfortable with my vocab and grammar, but as it stands now, I'm far from fluent.