I'm learning Japanese and want to learn French! Maybe German in the future too...

>>115 >German Why? For Asuka..? I would too to be honest Maybe you can impress her with both Japanese and German

I would love to learn something like Mandarin, but I'm a dumb dumb monolingual with caveman brain to learn it (Not stopping me from eventually attempting it >:D)

I tried learning Russian a couple of years back. Maybe one day I'll attempt it again As of now I know spanish, english and I got a first grader's understanding of cyrillic languages

>>124 Russian sounds like it'd be fun to speak

The language I want to learn the most is French

>>114 English is my second language... I do know quite a bit of Spanish, mostly reading and hearing Now I'm learning Japanese :snicker" >>115 >>130 I also want to learn a French. Technically I learned for a while during middle school, but I don't remember almost anything

>>154 I took Japanese a bit in high school but I sucked at it

english is my third lang which I have been learning since my childhood, still don't get it. I wish I could master this lang as my first and second languages, because it has lots of useful informations. the global language though

>>158 Good luck in continuing to master the English language. It was my 2nd language too because I moved to America when I was in middle school. Before that I knew Russian. The best way to learn is just to simply be immersed in it by living in English dominant places, which goes for any language. Enjoy the media with it and such.

Just like every non-English internet user i know my native(Latvian) language and English. Is there even any point to learning another language if i'm not gonna move anywhere?

English is my second language and I've been immersed in learning Mandarin

>>114 I currently speak 3 languages Italian English German and am trying to learn japanese rn

>>160 Probably not, but it's kind of fun to do so anyway.

>>114 I am learning French!

I wasted my time learning Spanish for years just to somehow know barely any of the language. Now I'm learning Indonesian/Malaysian since they're a lot closer and realistically there's a chance I'll be visiting Malaysia in the future.

Aside from my native language and my parents' language (they're immigrants), I know English (obviously), and I'm learning Japanese.

>>160 The only language worth learning (aside from English) is Japanese, so that you can appreciate glorious Japanese media to the full extent.

>>114 English is my second language, with German being my mother tongue. I'm currently learning Russian to be able to talk to my older family members

I want to learn Mandarin

>>160 I see learning languages as a fun activity. I'd love to learn random languages in my free time. Latvian looks really beautiful written, I'd like to one day have the strength and time to learn it. I guess to most people learning languages can be boring.

I recently began to learn Japanese. Wish me luck!

>>255 Ganbatte ne!

>>187 What is your native language?

>>160 same except finnish i don't have the patience for learning other languages

>>114 I'm part of the Philology department right now, with a focus on Japanology.

I know some Persian and Arabic. I might start Syriac or Greek soon. I tried Japanese and liked it but dropped it because I didn't have the time.

Italian is my mother language and I know english from years of internet usage. Apart from that, I studied spanish in school and know some russian. I'm also trying to learn japanese like everyone else, but at this rate I will be long dead before I manage to formulate a full sentence

>>114 Currently I only know Portuguese (Brazil) and english. I tried Japanese these days but I thought it was overwhelming for a smol brain like me. The good thing about being a native portuguese speaker is that I can understand spanish without much hassle English I literally learnt with Comprehensive Input, simply by watching tons of videos, listening to music and watching TV series. It worked surprisingly well!! I will try this with Japanese, later.

>>297 >The good thing about being a native portuguese speaker is that I can understand spanish without much hassle Yes, same, and some other latin languages, like French and Italian

>>298 Are you portuguese brazillian or portuguese portuguese? lol I try understanding Portuguese from Portugal, but it sounds more like another language the accent is difficult haha

>>299 Portuguese from Portugal Everyone says our accent is hard to understand or that it sounds like Russian, but I understand Brazilian just fine I'm probably way more exposed to it than you are to Portuguese from Portugal tho

learning Japanese vocabulary is the worst part of learning any language.

>>301 Specially when the vocabulary has nothing to do with your mother language

>>114 Yes, I know English.

>>325 Do you really?

English is my second language. Learned Japanese last year for 1 month, probably reaching a level slightly under N5 level. Had to stop due to uni entrance exams, now I`m majoring at Philosophy and want to return to nihongo, though I'll probably learn Deutsch語 since it's fits better for my context and seems cooler than Furansu語. >>158 Your writing is comprehensive so you're doing quite well, in my humble opinion. I'm curious though, what are the other languages you know? (Btw, are you still here, hikarin?)

I’m a native speaker of Greek and learned English since i was young, now im trying to improve my Spanish and learn Russian for my Armenian friend (and for myself ofc)

>>114 I had to learn 3 languages but the one I really had chose to learn is Japanese. I don't have any time for VNs, anime, and games though. Man...

I speak a very shitty Vietnamese that I am hoping to improve on because I feel like I could be so much better. I also learned some Japanese at school which does come in handy sometimes but my Japanese needs a lot of work. I can also read some Traditional Chinese characters that I picked up.

>>394 How was learning the alphabet like? I heard it was easier to pick up because it's apparently made to be easier for learners.

>>114 I've had a Dutch anki deck installed on my PC for about a month now and I've yet to get on with the learning part T_T I find Dutch not only a very pleasing language to here but also I think the way its a cross between German and English to be very neat. Though I'm American so unless I travel abroad there is little chance for me to have a reason to speak it to real people :/

>>397 nederlands is ook een behoorlijk goede taal hikarin. misschien kunnen we er zelfs een aparte thread van maken ofzo

>How was learning the alphabet like? I heard it was easier to pick up because it's apparently made to be easier for learners. For Japanese? The alphabet is not bad. I think Hiragana and Katakana are the easiest parts of Japanese. Kanji is also not as hard as people think because Kanji can be recognized pretty easily. The hard part of Japanese is grammar. It's just an ass to learn especially verb conjugation. My advice if I could give you any is just learn the alphabet and Kanji as you go, But focus heavily on grammar.

>>399 I meant for Vietnamese I heard Hirangana was harder but Kanji is fun yes

English is my second language and Russian is third. Currently trying to grind Japanese as well since I was too lazy to do it a decade ago.

>I meant for Vietnamese laugh Oh, I'm actually Vietnamese myself and I learned from my parents and also took Viet school for some time.

>>402 Do you take Pho

>>403 No. I take BBH

>>404 is that Bún Bò Huế

>is that Bún Bò Huế Late reply but yeah

>>114 English is my 2nd language, actually! Tried to learn Japanese, Russian, French and German over the years, but none of that really worked out

>>114 Chinese

>>114 English is my second language, and i'm studying japanese atm. But learning english and japanese so far have been 2 completely different experiences; I learned the former pretty much through osmosis and too much time spent on imageboards, but I'm quite literally having to grind to get any semblance of progress in the latter. Still lots of fun though, the language is fun to learn in general. >>297 I think the biggest advantage of being a native portuguese speaker, or BR portuguese at least, is the wide range of kinds of sounds in the language, which makes learning the phonology(?) of other languages much easier. I never had trouble pronouncing japanese words, for example, because we have 1:1 equivalents in BR portuguese for all of those sounds. Pronouncing french or german words isn't particularly difficult for me either. >>301 It has always been grammar for me lol. A lot of times I can understand what each word in a sentence means individually, but not know how to string them together to understand the bigger, general structure of that sentence.