Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 Three different alphabets for one language? Wow, that sounds complicated!
Dean Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 Yeah. A combination of the three is usually used. But basically: Hiragana: Local Words Katakana: Foreign Kanji: Words that used to be pictures but have slowly changed to writing.
girl_from_uk Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 Yeah I'm fluent in spanish because I spent 5 yrs at school learning it....I can do sign langauge abit..can do the alpahbet, numbers up to 12 and some simple words too. I did learn french for 1/2 a term after school but cant really remeber any off it!
Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 Yeah. A combination of the three is usually used. But basically: Hiragana: Local Words Katakana: Foreign Kanji: Words that used to be pictures but have slowly changed to writing. That makes sense. I know a Japanese girl, but her English is amazing so there aren't any problems! I've studied Italian for 4 years, so I'd say I was pretty fluent....although it's a lot easier having MSN conversations in Italian than having to speak, they speak so damn fast!
Dean Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 I always thought a LOTE would be impossible, but I like it.
Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 ^^ A what? :confused: When I used to study French and Italian parallel to each other, it became so complicated in exams, I ended up mixing vocabulary and studying what I can only describe as Fretalian!
Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 ^^ Ahh...sorry, I can be rather slow sometimes! I love studying a LOTE too...in fact, I wanna study at least Italian (and possibly another language) at Uni....my friends think I'm weird, they can't see the attraction of a foreign language.
Cal Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 I love Swedish and Russian, it's so cool and easy to learn.
Eneli. Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 Estonian, English, German and just a little bit French and Russian.
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