Hello, I just wanted to ask you what language/s are you learning at the moment?
I am learning German because I find it a very powerful language and I would also like to live in Germany one day.
What language are you learning at the moment?
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Just started learning Russian!
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I'm learning French.
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Gotta get me some more Korean. D:
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French
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Russian!
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Japanese...
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Deutsch!
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Spanish!
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I'm really glad to see that people are still interested in learning different languages. I almost started to belive that nobody is interested anymore because of my classmates.
So how do you like the language you learn? Do you think is hard, and how different is it compared with your native language? -
I'm currently studying Japanese.
In answer to Ionut's latest post, 日本語が大好きです(I love Japanese)！
It is hard, but I think I have an unfair advantage in that I enjoy conjugating verbs and learning the difference between the way other people say things and the way Americans say them. (For example, the above phrase translates more literally to something like, "The Japanese language is very likable.") The hardest part, for me, is staying motivated. I am basically teaching myself with the help of free online resources and some books that were gifted to me. As I have no one to push me, and no one to speak to in Japanese, there are always those times when I stop and think, "Why am I doing this again?" My vocabulary is pitifully small at the moment.
Japanese differs VERY widely from English. First of all, the Japanese tend to omit anything that can be figured out through context; most Japanese sentences omit the subject, and pronouns are used a lot more sparingly than in English. While English has the basic sentence structure of Subject-Verb-Object, Japanese is more Subject-Object-Verb. Japanese also has handy particles to mark the topic, the subject, and the object, as well as a couple sentence-ending particles ("ka", used to mark a question, and "yo" used kind of to mark an exclamation, except not quite). While English doesn't differentiate between the copula and the "to be" verb, Japanese does; it also has two "to be" verbs, one for animate and one for inanimate things. Another major difference is that adjectives in Japanese are really verbs. Predicate adjectives conjugate for tense, and in informal speech can be used without the copula. Another difference... Eh. There are way too many to list. XD Perhaps one of my favorites is the difference in politeness levels; every Japanese verb has a polite and a plain form, both of which have their own conjugations... It's all rather complicated, but I rather like it. They have different ways to say everything depending on who you are talking to, and what your relationship to him/her; I've heard it's difficult to figure out how to talk to which person, but as I've never spoken to someone who knows Japanese, I have not experienced it.
As for the writing system, that's totally different than English, and still somewhat outside my range of comprehension.
So, yes... Quite different, quite difficult, and quite delightful. -
At the moment I'm learning Spanish, but I think some of my friends and I are going to end up teaching each other different languages. I'm going to teach them Spanish, my friend Asia is going to teach everyone Japanese, Mara I going to teach German and a bit of Russian. All while in English class.
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I'm learning Irish at the moment! It's difficult, but fun! And sounds like a great idea (and also fun), Pencil
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Arabic! And French.
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Cool! I always wanted to learn Arabic.
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