Do you know any other languages?

[gateofselidor]

My native language is English, but I also speak Japanese. My day job involves translating and proofreading Japanese to English for video games. My spoken Japanese isn't great at this point, and I'm not as good at writing kanji as I was at university, but I can understand it well, and convert it into natural English.

[Mikayi]

@sistalsartworkshop I really do, I know a few words in Romanian but they aren't good words, only because my brother in law taught them to me. Sicilian is another one I don't speak it much, but it's my dad's language and he rarely uses it so it's not anything I can say I'm completely fluent in. but wow! German and French. the best I can do in French is ask for coffee. LOL I prefer Korean, only because it's easier for me English was so hard to learn! but lucky I started as a kid so it got easy after a while. but I love Chinese too. the tonal is so much fun but be careful if you pronounce it wrong it means something totally different

@PopteenPrincess wow! but you have no one to speak to in Japanese where you are? I work with a few Okinawan they speak Japanese, not Okinawan but awe, Japanese was a fun language to learn though. English seems pretty common. was it hard for you to learn English? it was for me I had to go to speak classes, and after a while I didn't realize I wasn't answering in English.

@Vanzish Oh wow! I have a brother in law from Romania I heard him speak before, he only taught me terrible things to say though. but it's a pretty language. you know a lot! that's amazing! where they all easy to learn for you? oh I hope you leave translations in your comic when you do that. I think it was mostly because I lived in Korea and Okinawa so it was Japanese class I had to go to. and I picked up Chinese in collage. I think more or less it was because the syntactic was close to Korean; Japanese was that is.

@miseryhunting wow! that's amazing. I don't know any Russian, but I heard it before. and singing it's an interesting language but I don't know if I could speak it cause the tones I'm not used to hearing so it's harder for me to pronounce. I know a little KSL I wish I knew some ASL since I live in the US right now. you must love learning languages! Japanese is a fun language to learn.

@gateofselidor that has to be a very fun job! if you don't mind me asking, some of my friends when they were trying to learn Japanese or Korean seemed to have a tough time with SOV vs SVO . was it hard for you too? or did you already have Japanese under you? I found learning English was a lot harder for me then learning Japanese.

[dglisson]

Spanish is actually my first language, English is my second but I have no accent in either and my vocabulary in English has grown to be more than there was in Spanish (probably all that Shakespeare).

[sarrowsmith10]

I speak bad English, some Spanish and some Japanese. I am totally proficient in feline though. My cat and I have serious conversations. Seriously.

[gateofselidor]

@Mikayi It's not always fun, but it's much better than the admin-type jobs I used to do, and I definitely get to see a lot of interesting things. I also get on very well with the people I work with, because games is generally an industry people work in because they love it (it's unstable and the pay isn't great, so there are few practical benefits).

I had no trouble with SOV vs SVO. The basic grammar I was taught first was all very regular, so I figured out the patterns very quickly and just adjusted to them. I'm not surprised you found Japanese easier than English. I did a module of basic Korean as an elective in my final year, and I could see it had far more in common with Japanese than English or any other European language I've studied.

[Noglastiaa]

Aside from english I know bengali. It's my first language i think. I usually just speak it with adults but after i lived in Bangladesh for 6 years, I learned to read and write it too. And i'm more fluent. But I use it much less after moving back to america. lol

[Vanzish]

@Mikayi Romanian is my mother language, German i basically grew up with, English was easy and Dutch too since i knew German ^^
I didn't take much interest in French before, also due to our teachers, but i'd like to know it better. Spanish is easier to understand because of Romanian.
I will always translate if i use a different language ^^

Do you plan on learning more in the future?

[Kyosu]

I speak English and Italian with all of its dialects °w°

[kkitty]

I have a lot of media in Japanese and my mom is Japanese so it's alright, but I only speak Osakaben, not the actual normal dialect.

And my English may LOOK okay, but it's so far off from my actual thoughts since I haven't learned it correctly. Also I'm moving back so there's kind of no point in my learning more than I have to.

[demthorshie]

I speak English and Spanish, as those were the two languages I was raised to learn. I also know how to speak and read conversational Japanese (Kana/hiragana).

[Ringarune]

I speak English, some Polish, and I took three years of Spanish in school, but I'm far from fluent in that XD

[gruetzi]

I speak bad Engish and Spanish. Spanish is my first language :B

[Lee]

Spanish is my native language, I also speak english (duh), some basic chinese and I also took a semester of italian but didnt really learnt much

[sauropasquini]

My native language is Italian, but I know english as well, I can understand French and a little bit of spanish. I'm also used to understand a little bit of hebrew, but I cannot read or write it.

[AnnaLandin]

My native language is Swedish (hejsan från Sverige! ), but I'm pretty much fluent in English. I can also understand basic-to-intermediate German, as I studied it in highschool (and also because hey, Swedish and German are both germanic languages - they have stuff in common!), and I'm teaching myself French at the moment - I'm at that point where I can read a joke in French on Twitter and understand most of it, but not the punchline. XD

Beyond that... I understand a few stray phrases in Russian - I can introduce myself, apologise, swear a bit - but I can't read Cyrillic beyond a few letters, and I know about the same amount of Japanese, but can't read their alphabet(s)/syllabaries.

Languages are fun!

Also, knowing Swedish means I can read and understand the gist of most texts in Norwegian and Danish, even if I can't always understand spoken Norwegian and Danish. Norwegian has lots of dialects, some which sound nearly like Swedish except, you know, more upbeat, and some of which are impenetrable to a foreigner. Danish is much the same, only worse.

[R.n.P]

I only know English but strangely I wanna learn German Spanish n Japanese n I don't know why.
Maybe the languages sound cool to me
THE LAST SAMURAI

[endlessuprising]

Heeey, cool topic.

Yes I've been learning to write + speak Japanese for about the last 7 years and have recently resumed French again to. It would be good to one day be able to translate my comics, but I can bet my butt that that is a loooooong ways off!! :3

[Mikayi]

@dglisson wow! so English was Second? was it easy for you to learn? and Oh goodness Shakespeare was a difficult text, his plays and all with that context in them I had a hard time understanding him. but English was second to me. that's amazing though.
@sarrowsmith10: that's wonderful I can't speak Feline but I can speak dog. and it's always good to half conversations with animals! that's different Spanish to Japanese. were they easy to catch on to for you?

@gateofselidor really? I thought it would seem like a fun job, at least from people I know here, they want to do those things, but then again they never actually know anything about the job. That's good to hear, I found a lot of English speakers had some issues with it. but it's good you didn't, and yes there are a lot of similarities between the two. Korean and Japanese, but we never had to learn as much Hanja (Kanji) as Japanese students. some words are similar too but not all. it's wonderful you did some basic Korean Module for school!

@Noglastiaa tha'ts a new one! Bengali, I should look that up so I can hear what it sounds like. I'm glad you still know it, I understand, I moved to the US and no one speaks the language it's not useful unless you find someone who speaks it too.

@Vanzish they seems like they are around the same central area or similar. my brother in law is Romanian, he speaks Italian too saying it was easy to learn. but he only taught me a few things like hello, how are you. and then a bunch of bad words. it's a pretty language though. I'm glad to hear it that you'll translate. Me? I may, I need to brush up on my Chinese, but since no one around here learns it, it's hard to find anyone to talk to, and I lost track of my friend who was Chinese. not sure what language to learn next if I do.

@Kyosu really? do you know Sicilian dialect? That's the version I learned. and I heard Italian before too.

@PopteenPrincess really? lol I heard there was different dialects, I'm not sure which one I learned from my class though. but I did have a teacher who used the 4 (shi) and one that didn't like that because of the meaning behind it wanted us to use yon ((sorry my romanji is not good)) not sure if that had to do with where they were from or a superstition she had. and aws but English is a hard language to learn it was hard for me so I understand.

@demthorshie Spanish to Japanese wasn't hard? I was told Spanish is closer to English then it was to Japanese. but you seem to have picked it up well? lol kana and hiragana I can do but I am not good with my Kanji anymore.

@Ringarune Polish is a new one on here. and I've heard that before, I think whe I came to the US they learn Spanish since childhood and most Americans I know don't remember any of it. or just the bad words

[Mikayi]

@gruetzi really? that's funny, I think my English is horrible. but Spanish is bad too? but still wonderful you know two languages.

@Lee is Spanish closer to Italian? and Chinese wow! I took Chinese the fun part is the tones, the syntax was similar to English but not completely the same.

@sauropasquini I know a little Italian but not enough to get me by. Oh wow! Hebrew? the writing looks difficult and part of the sounds seem hard. you can understand it? can you speak any of it? or say some word?

@AnnaLandin Oh my! that text looks like so much fun. I can't speak Swedish or know anything from that Language. your high school offered german? that's wonderful, I was offered Chinese, English or Japanese.I don't know much French only to ask for Coffee. x.x" but wonderful! you understand so much though.
I'm glad you fine Languages fun, I love learning them cause you learn about the culture too.

@phenomenom9 English seems common for everyone on here which is a good thing. we can understand each other. and I'm sure you have fun with learning them. they seem like all interesting Languages to learn.

@endlessuprising Japanese is fun to learn they have short syllables, but because the similarities with Korean syntax it wasn't to hard for me. so I'm sure you must be having fun with it. French is interesting the way it sounds. yes, I think Translation is hard due to the "spoken" vs "written" and in Comics we have to know a "spoken" version to make sure the language sounds right. written seems more proper.

[AnnaLandin]

your high school offered german?

I started studying German in 5th grade, actually, so last couple of years of elementary school! And then I kept studying it until 9th grade^, and graduated with an A - unfortunately, lack of practise means I've forgotten a lot of it. >.< If you gave me a newspaper in German, I would at least be able to understand the gist of what's being written about.

^Sweden doesn't really have the same kind of highschool-system as the US does. I went to one school for 1st to 6ht grade, then moved to another school for "högstadiet" (which would translate as "highschool", even though it isn't the same as the US highschool) for 7th to 9th grade, and then went to "gymnasiet" for another 3 years - and when you get to the gymnasium-stage, you get to specialise in a specific subject - I chose art, and got a v. basic art school education. ... Note that a "gymnasium"-school in Swedish doesn't actually have anything to do with gym-classes. I have no idea why we ended up with that word for it, but there you go. I only studied Swedish and English in gymnasiet, though - I dropped German classes after 9th grade.