i got four and half years of japanese. i was going to go to japan, but it was too expensive. we had alot of choices i hischool, we had hawaiian, japansese, french spanish, a bit of german, and some tagalog during mid school, but it was a extra academical course, mostly the ilocano girls and non speakers took it. an old ilocano teachers taught the class.

i took up french----->then forgot everything in a snap :S

da only foreign language i know is italian. I learnt it in HS but I'm not very good at it coz I only took it for one year. Ciao, Come Stai??

that's cool, i guess it something rare in hs here.

wow so u want to be japanese now flip? isnt it acording to u whatever language u speak your that ethnicity, and whatever enivornment u live in your that too..... i cant speak tagalog so im not filipino, but i speak english so im white.... i live in tennesee so im white too.

so u wnan move to japan, does that mean u want to be japneese now?

not classes but I went to a French school since Im in a French speaking province...so blah...

ditto...8 straight years of french ..... down the drain

that's so unfortunate, no? anyway, i'm planning on taking up french again in alliance francaise but it's such a hassle because the place's far. i should've just taken spanish or japanese instead. argh.

japanese language could give you alot of money in hawaii, some of my classmates ended up becoming translators for japanese tour systems and they got major paychecks. but it was like htey spoke it since they were kids.

I am interested in Chinese Mandarin!

deustchland

i'm gonna take chinese reading and writing next year so....ehhh

How! Is it hard to learn German????

if you like the language, its hard. but i am very very interested in anything german.
"Deuschtland Uber Alles"....

ggerman sounds just like english i swear its probably the easiest if not spanish if you are fluent in english. i use to work at a grocery store and people from germany and holland sounds so much like people from teh mainland that sometimes like they speaking english, and so much people in college speak fluent german even though they never stepped anywhere near germany.

Italian is easy, similar to Spanish, French and even english. of course, I only did the one for beginners so it might get a bit harder:

uno
due
tre
quattro
cinque
sei
sette
ono
nove
dieci

uhh sorry senora, didn't know you such a pro in italiano.

I'm not, i made a couple of mistakes in the 1st one. i think this is more accurate:

uno
due
tre
quattro
cinque
sei
sette
otto
nove
dieci

(I dont even noe if thats spelled correctly)

i like to have a signature like the one dalawapo have....

It is very hard to learn German. Only if you are a language genius like Rizal, you can learn it in 1-2 years. The German Language has three gender and a complicated declination and conjugation of verbs. My wife is now living for more than twenty years in Germany and has still difficulities.

Wolfgang

we have taken mandarin classes before...
and same here..
all of a sudden...
ni hao ma, is the only thing i remember...

we were going to tokyo once cuz my three year japanese language teacher was leaving for las vegas, so i wanted to go, but i didn't wanted to use all the money i earned working for months just for a one week trip. but i sometimes wished i would have cuz then they had such a awesome time over there. now i want to go with my friends who are willing maybe after i grad from college.

tokyo is apparently a very expensive place. better save up heaps.

yeah, that's actually one of the first things i learned in the my class. that is why it is so hard to live in tokyo.

Just spanish


I do plan on taking some other language when I decide to go back to school. I just dont know which yet. But japanese sounds interesting and would love to learn it.

it's really cool to learn. the only thing that made is the fact that you have to learn to write in different characters, it jus add up to the length in actually learning the language.

yea i have taken 3 years of spanish in high school and i am currently taking japanese as an extra academic course for summer school

after japanese, i wanna learn german (i think germany is cool too ) and then visayan (if i can't find a teacher for this then i'll just learn tagalog).

but yea, it takes about 6 years to master a language (of course you have to study very hard) and it takes about 2 years to master a language if you are living in that country that has the language (you learn much fast this way because you need to communicate in order to get around and SURVIVE :genius: this is not logic but a FACT...)

You just try Filipino.

well i wanna learn the specific dialect known as visayan because that's what my family speaks and the part of Philippines they are from. if it's not offered then i'll just learn the official language tagalog....

EDIT: i also noticed that visayan is not one of the 8 languages of the philippines (according to dalawapo's signature)

I took French for 6 years in high school. Not the actual Parisian French, but French-Canadian. Now, I can only remember a few phrases.

i took spanish in high school. Passed every test even though to this day i still don't understand when ppl speak spanish to me.

took japanese for four years and half and i forgot it even when my ex use to teach me.

I took two years of spanish in high school but that's only beacuse I had to. I'm teaching myself some Korean with a little help from a t.v show. I tried learning Japanese but it's too hard for me.

yeah because japanese is a whole new language unlike spanish which is like romantic, not really but because of it's big french influence, i mean some words are the same almost. japanese is like you gotta learn both the phoenetics and the vocabulary so you can read and write as well as understand.

actually, i think it's easier for someone who speaks tagalog to learn japanese. speaking the two languages, i found alot of similarities which makes me wonder if they were japanese influence.

few examples:

na-adjectives in both languages

japanese: kirei na onna wa doko da?
tagalog: yung maliit na tao ay nasaan?


wa is similar to ay and ga is similar to ang

wa
kore wa oishii da
ito ay masarap

ga
kore ga ichiban oishii da
ito ang pinaka masarap

i think this is what japanese learners have trouble on because it doesnt exist in english. but this grammar exist in tagalog. things like the tagalog, " yung, ang, ay, ni, sa, na, ng etc" is basically the same usage as the japanese, "wa, ga, no, ni, de, wo, etc"

so dont get discouraged! if u connect japanese to tagalog, instead of japanese to english, things will be so much easier to understand.

good observation i never thought of that when i was in highschool.

Am takin up French, studied German and Japanese (can only speak, not write ) and now am forced to study Latin coz it's required! I started to learn Korean just last week----fun! mahusay rin po ako mag-Tagalog at Bicol! hah!

few years back i studied mandarin (can speak but not much); then yr-2000 i studied german (can speak and read); yr-2002 i studied korean (can speak but cant read and write hangul... uhm... its quite hard!); this year 2004 i studied french... Avoir un jour agréable poste dans AF !

I started learning Korean last week. My Korean prof can speak Tagalog fluently! a plus for me. So if you can teach me some useful sentences then go ahead...oh boy, really need help! I am planning to stay in Korea for 2 years! ahh! Mon dieu, ja'i trouvé que c'était tres difficile!!! j'aime apprendre ça mais...alors la, pas d'accord, non mais ça va pas la tête!!! wah!

Ya, sure! No problem!
Some of the useful greetings are:
Hello! - Yobo-seyo!
Good morning - An-nyong ha-sim nik-ka
Good evening - An-nyong ha-sin nik-ka
How are you? An-nyong hasim nik-ka?
Goodbye - Annyonghi kaseyo
Thank you - Kamsahamnida
My name is... - Che irumun... imnida
Hope this may help you... Avoir un grand temps dans Corée..

c'est dommage! Mais, bonne chance!

heh 8 years of french and that's about all i know

Hehehe! Pas mauvais !

lol

merci beaucoup, mais mon francais, c'est vraiment tres mal....

Pour moi, vous êtes grand ! Je vous donnerai 9/10 !
lol
Vous êtes une coréenne, la droite ? mauvais ?

ei I studied in a chinese school ....mandarin is included in our curriculum ..
i took a japanese just for one month and i didnt have the time to continue it (but im planning to after i graduate )

i love japanese, actually i was trying to put on a japanese accent so i could speak it the way japanese people do. i like how they speak they'd go fast and up and then slow and go down in intonation. hehe.

thanks,gurl for the Korean lesson...you know, i've read one of your posts (your post was actually for me) and we've got something in common...this is my email ad: littletutu17@yahoo.com-----what's yours?

trying ot go to take latin or greek classes but it's not offered in my school. i think it will help you understand so much more english and romantic languages os much easier if you knew.

Bounjour !

Spanish next year.