The Language learning thread!!

Sorra · Otaku Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 440 Location: San Jose

Weeeee! I know some of you know mandarin or other languages. We obviously all speak English, but I'm curious to see what all everyone knows. My roommate and I plan to mooch Cantonese lessons from the people from Hong Kong in the dorm, anyone speak that? She speaks Mandarin too but I fail at being Chinese.

MidNightBlue · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:00 am Post subject:

I was thinking about making a Japanse language learning thread, but didn't because I wasn't sure how much interest there was in that.

But I have a Japanese question, which is more polite for the number nine, kyu or ku?

LostInWonderland · Otaku Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 395 Location: Denver, CO

I forgot most of the Japanese I knew. I can speak a little bit of French and some Polish. And English, obviously.
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Sorra · Otaku Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 440 Location: San Jose

kyu I believe, something about it meaning like suffering or something. I know they don't usually use "shi" for 4 becasue it means "Death."

Really? Polish? What's that like compared to Spanish and French? I know some spanish.

GrinfilledCelt · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:55 am Post subject:

What's to learn about luggage? You put your stuff in it and close it up. When you get to where you're going, you open it up and take your stuff out.
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Hungry Mongoose · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:28 am Post subject:

Good Sir, if that is your assumption, you have a lot to learn about baggage transportation! Please step right this way, and I'll introduce you to the Turbotrunkomatic 5009...

As for me, I've forgotten just about all of the Spanish I ever learned, and some of the Englis. Apart from a few phrases that's about all I know.
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jjjynx · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:16 am Post subject:

It'd be a lie if I said I know nothing, but I'm horrible in english, not really good in Mandarin, fails in Japanese (Going for actual lessons soon), can't really tell much about the Malay Language and am not able to speak Hokkien well...it's a thing in Singapore I guess, Singlish, that's what they call it. It's a mixture of EVERYTHING.

Dread_Knight^Samurai · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

HAH! You and I are in the same boat, my dear old friend Jjjynx. Here we call it Manglish...I suppose it's the same as Singlish. We just throw in everything in our everyday conversation, chinese, malay, indian, japanese even...

And for number 9 it is indeed "kyu"
number 7 we can either call it nana or shichi
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Sorra · Otaku Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 440 Location: San Jose

so you speak Pidgen English? I always thought your typing was so much better than even mine Blue_PDT_01_03

I feel all like a nooby American now, I know basically nothing but English.

there's a Malay native language? didn't know that.
Haha so you could all talk in about 4 languages in the same conversation? Blue_PDT_01_04

That'd be interesting, I feel all weird just trying to talk to the people in the I-House when they're half speaking in mandarin and half in english.

MidNightBlue · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject:

I've done half Mandarin half English before, but it's usually when I'm trying to do all Mandarin but can't remember certain words so I substitute it with English and hope that the other person understand or I end up gesturing to try to get the point across.

I remember once I couldn't think of the Mandarin word for refridgerator and I was like - um, you know, the big ice cold box thing ... that you put food in to keep it cold. It was like telling riddles or playing charades.

Sorra · Otaku Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 440 Location: San Jose

LOL Did the person understand english or what you meant? XD

MidNightBlue · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject:

Well, I said it all in Mandarin and gestured a lot, but I finally just walked over to the kitchen and pointed to the fridge that was sitting there.

Let's see, what languages do I know? I had to learn a smattering of French in high school, which I no longer remember. I've forgotten a lot of Chinese. I picked up an inkling of Japanese from watching too much anime. I can speak English. So I guess the only language I feel like I have any mastery over is English. Yeah.

Sorra · Otaku Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 440 Location: San Jose

Lol pointing always works. Yes anime so helps for art and japanese XD

swollenlymphnodes · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject:

It is one of my dreams to become a High School Teacher, where I would make my kids watch well done anime and have them write expository essays about them.

I spoke nice good English
Hawaii has it's own form of pidgin
Then Some Spanish 2 years hs & in college
a little Italian
a few Filipino, Japanese & French phrases
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Sorra · Otaku Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 440 Location: San Jose

You from Hawaii too Swollen?
Yeah it does XD I'm out of practice speaking it but I still remember alot.

LOL that would be the best class ever, I'd pretend to be a student again to go in it XD
My Samurai class teacher is seriously thinking of showing Samurai Champloo (however it's spelled) lol