Chinese and Japanese

[Rapper]

Chinese, so I can remind Yao Ming that Ginobili owns him

HAHA

Yes, you can

[TDMVPDPOY]

I know why some of you like Japanese

Because of Japanese women and video games

/thread.

[Rogue]

se dice que chinecia japanicia ha no friendicion
yo ha las libros que dicaria chinecia, btw no parabla yo understandado

[vincent]

I am a Chinese studying in Germany. In my opinion Japanese and Chinese are very similar. One of my classmates has learned some Japanese. I can understand lots of the words from his pronunciation and writing, even tho I never learned Japanese.

[v2freak]

Japanese, probably.

[E20]

Japanese

[atxrocker]

i'd love to have the financial means to stay a month or 2 in Tokyo, have heard some very cool things. and after hearing enough tales of China from my brother when he went there to teach english, japan definitely gets my vote.

[TDMVPDPOY]

its all about the pussy



o kitty anyone?

[jameschristopher]

I have choose Japanese and learning it and believe that it really depends on your motivation, interest and practicality of language use. If you live in an area of the world where Spanish is spoken and you can watch t.v. or listen to Spanish music, then you may want to learn Spanish because it it will be easier to meet native speakers and practice the language. The same would go for Japanese.

English is a combination of Germanic structure and Latin-derived vocabulary. Spanish is a Romance (Latin-based) language, so you will find similarities while learning it. They also use the same alphabet as we do (with the addition of several letters), so learning to read it is not as difficult as say Russian or Greek would be.

Japanese is an Asian language that actually has three writing forms, kanji, katagana and hiragana that each have different characters that need to be memorized that represent different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.). They also use romaji, the Roman alphabet to write Japanese using our alphabet (tsunami, sake, sushi, etc.).

I suggest becoming fluent in one of the two as you can easily get confused if you try the two before you've mastered one, then tackling the third. You might want to do Spanish first, as it will be more similar to English, then Japanese.

Resources-
Learn Japanese About.com
Video Lessons Youtube.com
Japanese Vocabulary

Cheers James

[baseline bum]

I have choose Japanese and learning it and believe that it really depends on your motivation, interest and practicality of language use. If you live in an area of the world where Spanish is spoken and you can watch t.v. or listen to Spanish music, then you may want to learn Spanish because it it will be easier to meet native speakers and practice the language. The same would go for Japanese.

English is a combination of Germanic structure and Latin-derived vocabulary. Spanish is a Romance (Latin-based) language, so you will find similarities while learning it. They also use the same alphabet as we do (with the addition of several letters), so learning to read it is not as difficult as say Russian or Greek would be.

Japanese is an Asian language that actually has three writing forms, kanji, katagana and hiragana that each have different characters that need to be memorized that represent different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.). They also use romaji, the Roman alphabet to write Japanese using our alphabet (tsunami, sake, sushi, etc.).

I suggest becoming fluent in one of the two as you can easily get confused if you try the two before you've mastered one, then tackling the third. You might want to do Spanish first, as it will be more similar to English, then Japanese.

Resources-
Learn Japanese About.com
Video Lessons Youtube.com
Japanese Vocabulary

Cheers James

Romance languages are hard enough for me. Changing from subject-verb-object to subject-object-verb order is tough to get used to, but expressing tense and mood almost strictly through conjugation of verb forms is even worse, and very foreign to a native English speaker (well, at least to me).

I envy anyone who can pick up natural language after about his 12th birthday, especially if he can speak it without much of an accent.

[The Reckoning]

Sakashe!