Languages you wished you could speak.
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Japanese I can speak a little bit, but I would love to speak it fluently.
Examples of words I know so far.
Sayonara- goodbye
Arigatou- Thank you.
Watashi no name wa, Jamie- My name is Jamie.
Oohio- Good morning.
Konchiwa- Good afternoon
Konbawa- Good eveing.
I can't remember what hello is though. Does anyone know?
Also, I can count to 100 in Japanese.
Examples of words I know so far.
Sayonara- goodbye
Arigatou- Thank you.
Watashi no name wa, Jamie- My name is Jamie.
Oohio- Good morning.
Konchiwa- Good afternoon
Konbawa- Good eveing.
I can't remember what hello is though. Does anyone know?
Also, I can count to 100 in Japanese.
Ahahahaha. Wow. That's one of the best songs ever, especially considering that it was camp counsellors that taught you that.s69-5 said:
Wow.
I think the English-French tension is probably just a culture thing. I mean, we did used to be settled by two different countries. Then the English took over, and the French basically signed everyone away. So really, the French were on the wrong end of the stick because they're culture was ripped away from them that long time ago. And then they went and had two referendums, making the English here hate the FLQ supporters and those who wanted to break away, then they just generalized it to saying everyone in Québec wants to break away. And then there were Acadians. They were booted out of their land and sent to the US, and then most History courses don't even teach that part of history if you don't live where Acadia was. The Acadians have every right to be mad.
/history rant.
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Seconded.Cajt said:Finnish. I can already speak some of it, but I'd like to learn more of it as soon as I'm done learning German.
Would "Vittun ämmä." count as sounding nice?Segadroid said:I could swear at the teachers at school while sounding nice!
I totally want to learn Finnish.
I honestly want to live there when I'm older.
Possibly become a dual-citizen, but becoming a citizen to Finland is a *****. It takes so much time. It's like, ten years, or something.
And yes, your curse would sound nice as long as you don't try to sound angry when saying it.
Learning the pronunciation for stuff in Finnish is the easy thing, in my opinion. Learning what it all means, on the other hand...
Not so easy.
Any language really, something obscure might be could because then you could say you're one of the few that can speak it.
Mongolian because then I could tell my girlfriend's parents they suck and should unground her. Also, that I'm ashamed they live in America. (I get kind of mad when they tell their daughter they're ashamed she's their daughter)
I'd also like to learn french, german, italian, chinese, and japanese so I could go anywhere in the world and -hit-on-women- meet new friends.
Swedish cuz my friend went there for a year and came back being able to speak it so itd be tight being the only person to speak it around for once.
I'd also like to learn french, german, italian, chinese, and japanese so I could go anywhere in the world and -hit-on-women- meet new friends.
Swedish cuz my friend went there for a year and came back being able to speak it so itd be tight being the only person to speak it around for once.
Oh my goodness. <3 I want to go to U of T and learn as many languages as I can. I've got English from being Torontonian, and I've got French from the school system (fortunately, I've had rather good French teachers over the years) and I took three years of Latin (but that's not really a spoken language. Nevertheless, it should be a piece of cake for me to pick up Spanish and Italian and the other Romance languages). I really want to learn Bengali because my best friend moved back to Calcutta a few months ago, and then I might as well take Hindu as well, since that's the dominant language in India... I want to learn Mandarin because my friends at school were trying to teach me and they're patient enough to put up with my inability to do pitches correctly ("Wow, I almost understood you that time! ^_^") and it's a beautiful language, spoken and written... And I've always wanted to learn Japanese, just because my ear picked it up when I was still an anime geek. I just don't know the grammar and most of the words.
I would love a job that lets me do the Russel Peters cultural-pizza thing, except without the entertainment aspect because I get stage fright and I'm not that funny. <3 But I love absorbing new cultures (new in the sense of unfamiliar to me, not recent).
Nevertheless, it should be a piece of cake for me to pick up Spanish and Italian and the other Romance languages). I really want to learn Bengali because my best friend moved back to Calcutta a few months ago, and then I might as well take Hindu as well, since that's the dominant language in India... I want to learn Mandarin because my friends at school were trying to teach me and they're patient enough to put up with my inability to do pitches correctly ("Wow, I almost understood you that time! ^_^") and it's a beautiful language, spoken and written... And I've always wanted to learn Japanese, just because my ear picked it up when I was still an anime geek. I just don't know the grammar and most of the words.I would love a job that lets me do the Russel Peters cultural-pizza thing, except without the entertainment aspect because I get stage fright and I'm not that funny. <3 But I love absorbing new cultures (new in the sense of unfamiliar to me, not recent
).
Didnt put this in my post, but my exchange student friend and i plan on going to europe this summer; figured itd be kool to speak something not english there, especially so I dont stick out as an american so much.
Could hurt to know some russian right? I'm learning french, so thats taken care of. Maybe something obscure like, uhh hard to think of one now, Polish is out there so i'll say that