Foreign Language Topic

[Flowertall]

I`m trying to learn the hiragana alphabet, it`s japanese. But in the japanese language they put both hiragana, katakana and kanji characters all in one sentence. I asked a friend who knows japanese why they don`t use just either one of the alphabets, because you write any japanese word using only hiragana. He explained it`s because kanji is more efficient, and it saves space.

By the way, the chinese characters for 1, 2 and 3 are ridiculously simple. They are as follows: 一 二 三

[AdAstrα]

[quote="MsNatalieRiddleStern"]Well, I speak Russian and Latvian those two ARE my real languages tho. (I dunno if I even did post here xD it's an old thread)[/quote]
You speak Russian? Teach me?

[nathalie]

I speak Dutch (Flemish really, as I'm from Belgium).
And German.

A bit French ...

I doubt anyone's jumping to learn any of those 3 languages

[AdAstrα]

I'd love to learn French ^

[KingKovu44]

I speak some Chinese, some Swahili and some Hebrew, but not enough in any of them to be considered fluent.

[Woeler]

I speak Dutch, English, German, Limburgs (local dialect) and a bit French

[nathalie]

[quote="Woeler1"]I speak Dutch, English, German, Limburgs (local dialect) and a bit French[/quote]

Are you from Limburg? I love that accent! hehe
My neighbours are from there, I love listening to them.
(and I live about 15 minutes from Maastricht)


@ AdAstra: can't help you there really with the French, hehe, I just know all the basics, so I can manage while being at Disneyland Paris

[AdAstrα]

[quote="nathalie"]

@ AdAstra: can't help you there really with the French, hehe, I just know all the basics, so I can manage while being at Disneyland Paris [/quote]
Ahhh dang it xD Might have to take actual French classes then...! Le sigh!

[Woeler]

[quote="nathalie"][quote="Woeler1"]I speak Dutch, English, German, Limburgs (local dialect) and a bit French[/quote]

Are you from Limburg? I love that accent! hehe
My neighbours are from there, I love listening to them.
(and I live about 15 minutes from Maastricht)


@ AdAstra: can't help you there really with the French, hehe, I just know all the basics, so I can manage while being at Disneyland Paris [/quote]

Xd yeah, I live 60km north of Maastricht.

[nathalie]

I've had French for 9 years, in school mainly, and 1 year I took an actuall class after I was graduated, but it just didn't help at all.

I absolutely love the French songs from TLK (and the musical), and I can sing them along, but I have no clue what so ever (!) what I'm singing, haha!

@Woeler1: I live next to Genk, if that should ring a bell
But some stores in Maastricht are actually much closer then the ones where I live, lol.