What language do you speak and/or write?

[Ansar]

English and Spanish. And I speak both perfectly, since I dont have an accent.

 

[Dann]

Thats why at my level, I need the Hiragana for the corisponding Kanji(s).

Everybody needs those. Most people from alphabet based languages who study Japanese admit to Kanji being the most difficult part of the process.

 

[Israelite9191]

Speak, read, and write English. Speak, read, and write Yinglish in both English and Hebrew alphabets. Can read Hebrew alphabet, but can only understand a small amount. I forgot to also vote for French, which I can read and speak at a begining level.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

'Merican is my native tongue, but I'm fluent in English, and studied German in high school. Latin seems to come very easily for me, too. I recognize much of French, some Italian, and am now studying Russian.

 

[GenMarshall]

Everybody needs those. Most people from alphabet based languages who study Japanese admit to Kanji being the most difficult part of the process.

Well, do you have any tips for begunners on how to make it easyer to learn Kanji better?

 

[MjM]

I speak Japapanese

 

[Grisu]

I hear German is the most overly complicated language in the world. How can a woman be feminine but Wife is nueter?

it seems you've been misinformed: I can think of german words for wife (Ehefrau, Frau, Gattin) and all of these are feminine The classification of things as male/feminine/neuter sure do generate a few problems for non-native speakers (same with me and french... )

as for me

native: (Swiss-)German
fluent: English
decent: French

 

[bhsup]

'Merikan. Previously known as English.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Native finnish, fluent english. I can also understand swedish but can't really speak it. Basics of russian.

 

[Dann]

Well, do you have any tips for begunners on how to make it easyer to learn Kanji better?

Sadly no. Those squarish thingies are ideograms - something akin to Egyptian hieroglyphs whose appearance convey no clue at all as to how it should be pronounced. You'll just have to memorize each by heart.

 

[thetrooper]

Speak, write and read: Norwegian (both bokmål and nynorsk, this is also my native tongue), English, Swedish, Danish and German. I guess that I could get the great picture reading Italian, French and Spanish.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Speak and Write English.

Speak and Write spotty Spanish.

 

[Zuffox]

Well, do you have any tips for begunners on how to make it easyer to learn Kanji better?

There's a very popular online videogame with a very educational presentation of the Kanjis, but the name and url of the game has eluded me.

I think it's one of the top Google hits on the subject, so give it a go, if you're going to try to learn Kanji.

 

[Berrie]

native language: dutch
Speaking and writing: English and French
Understanding and some speaking: German

 

[BirraImperial]

Native Language: Spanish
Speak, Write, Understand: English and German.

 

[Mirc]

I don't understand how from the 114 voters only 106 speak English. How could they understand the question then? And what are they doing on this forum then?

 

[MamboJoel]

French, English, German, a bit of Italian.

 

[thetrooper]

I don't understand how from the 114 voters only 106 speak English. How could they understand the question then? And what are they doing on this forum then?

Do not take CFC OT polls as absolute truth.

Hell, Perfection and Fifty checked all the language boxes IIRC.

 

[Yoda Power]

I haven't read the thread, so someone might have already brought this up.

But Danish is more spoken than Norwegian, so you should have included that instead

 

[kryszcztov]

Native language : French. Probably better at it than most of my country mates.

Fluent in : English. Started when I was 9, using it daily on the Internet. Love it. No rock music without it. Here it has always been the "cool language", you know, the language from the USA (pre-9/11).

Learned but forgot most of : German, Latin. Never passed the part about declinaisons, to put it short. Shame on me.

Know very few words in : Spanish ("Vamos a la playa"), Italian (when we insult football players ).

Currently learning : C (again). Soon : C++, Java, etc...

Would like (someday !) to learn basics in : every language, but more particularly Ancient Greek, and also Dutch and Arabic (go figure).