Decided to learn Japanese.

[muxec]

ええと So I started learning basic Japanese (URL ). Soon I'll know how to write "I don't write Japanese".

[Ecthy]

So what? I've been learning Chinese for about a year, and no end in sight!

[Frankychan]

good luck, I "studied" it for 3 years as well as being immersed with it by my grandma. It's super ass hard. Good luck dude.

My best line is:

Watashi no namae wa Frank desu. Hajimema****e. Doozo Yoroshiku.

(Other than saying ai****eru yo...but thats going too far.)

[VetLegion]

Echtelion, any progress? Are you able to understand anything? I'm very interested in learning chinese myself, so give me some info.

[Ecthy]

I'm not really after it much. I should be drawing symbols every day, but I'm not. After a year we're able to read headlines of newspaper articles and understand what the article is about. We can't get the whole message though, with knowledge of just about 30% of the characters used in the article.

As far as spoken language is concerned, the teacher is still speaking slowly and using only a limited amount of phrases. When we went to a Chinese restaurant, we managed some basic conversation with the restaurant owner's children talking to the man himself was hard. There are similar experiences with other Chinese restaurants (those that actually are Chinese not Vietnamese).

[VetLegion]

Keep it up man. When Chinese conquer everything, they'll need a lot of translators. You and me will have a head start on them, hell, maybe I become the head quisling for whole Europe one day or something

[Timexwatch]

Start dating a Chinese or Japanese girl and I'm sure they'll be happy to teach you anything you want to know. Or be like me and find yourself a girl that's half and half and speaks both

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Keep it up man. When Chinese conquer everything, they'll need a lot of translators.

So why not get Chinese people to do it?

[Winston]

I can do

Konnichiwa, watashi no namae wa Winston desu.

Very quickly followed by

Wakarimasen.

[Gatekeeper]

Why learn Japanese? Everyone knows Japan will be nothing more than an outlying province of China within a generation or two.

Gatekeeper

[Ecthy]

ni hao

[Ted Striker]

Hon'in mune atari sore.

[Theben]

Yeah, wakarimasen is all the japanese I need to know.

[Solver]

If you only have basic understanding of Chinese after a few years, it's bad, Chinese must be every bit as difficult as it's said to be. I'd probably find learning it interesting for a challenge (the European languages are similar anyway), but I don't seriously plan on learning Chinese because I can't imagine uses for it.

[Bill3000]

Japanese has uses, though; tons of uses. Obvious one is import games, other obvious ones could get me banned.