English: Native
Japanese: Beginner but getting more and more conversational as I live here. 2 years in college. Going for N5/N4 whenever I get a test date and depending on my ability at the time.
French: 3 years in high school, girlfriend is beginner to intermediate level. I suck at it myself. Very very basic now that I've lost most of it since then. Hilariously enough, my Japanese and French get mixed up, so I end up asking stupid questions like "Quelle heure desu ka?"
[quote author=TakaComics link=topic_id=5534&post_id=30678#rmsg_30678 date=1382327548]I end up asking stupid questions like "Quelle heure desu ka?"[/quote]
This made complete sense to me and my fragmentary middle-school French. :))
what gets really fun is when you're traveling somewhere where you don't speak the language, you start picking up a few things but then the languages you do know all start mashing up together - I definitely said "Watashi wa soy di Connecticut" when I was in Italy (4 languages in one sentence! O.o)
I wonder if there's been any research into which languages' grammars prevail in sentences like that? Maybe it just comes down to familiarity with each individual language? I know I'd definitely say "watashi wa" too, even though there's no real reason to prefer it over "watashi" in a case like that.
I'm pretty sure I got the limited-size 2 language brain, so any attempts to learn past English and Japanese would push one of those out. I've already been old my English has suffered since I've come to Japan.
English is my native. But my dad's family spoke greek so I'm conversational. I studied ancient Greek and Latin in college and Spanish and German in high school. Now I've been tackling Japanese for the past few years cause my partner speaks Japanese and mandarin and Japanese seemed better to learn for me.
I'm a native English speaker who tried to pick up German and French during my childhood, to no avail. I simply could not retain those languages after years of studies for some reason... And then I picked up Japanese on a whim and suddenly learned (and retained) an overabundance of information in a few months. I guess Japanese just works better in my mind, although tons of English-speaking people consider it to be more difficult than, say, Spanish or French. It's definitely been an enlightening experience.
Bahasa Indonesia is my native language. I want to say Javanese is also my native language, but it is kinda rusty. I grow up in the city, so I hardly ever speak Javanese.
I'm learning English since I was a little kid. Also a bit of Mandarin (at JHS) and French (at SHS). They were obligatory subjects to learn. I almost forget all of it now (except English obviously) because I don't use them, but nothing goes to waste. Japanese is the only language I learn on my own interest.
Will I relearn/continue to learn the languages I've learned before? Yes, hopefully if I have the resources (and a teacher).
Thai is my native language. I can speak English like, understandable, but my grammar sucks (it's getting lately tho, due to all my time I spend with ao3). My Japanese is at N3 level. I actually learned Japanese at my school and university, but with Covid, I have to study online for 2 years. I am the type that can't focus outside classroom and I feels like I've learned nothing. 😭😭 I graduated for a while now (like a loooooooong while) so I need to relearned them.😭
I'm from Poland, so I speak polish. My English is quite good, and I know a little German (I had classes at school but I wasn't really good and got discouraged, so I'm terrible at it)
And I hope I can pearn Japanese, but for now I only know basics (still more than German I think)
I speak Mandarin and Cantonese as my native language, and also fluent in English and Malay as I am a Malaysian. I find it easier to learn Japanese as I can read wide range of kanji and writing in it is easier for me. English helps me to understand Japanese grammars too.
I speak English, and that's about it. I am learning Japanese, French and Latin, but I'm pretty bad at them. I'd like to learn Korean one day as well because I like the sound of it, and also so that I can understand my favourite band, which is South Korean.
I guess Japanese just works better in my mind, although tons of English-speaking people consider it to be more difficult than, say, Spanish or French. It's definitely been an enlightening experience.
