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Originally posted by Ghost Raver I'm currently studying Japanese, but I'm at the very very beginning so don't know shit yet.

I can say aishiteru, but not to you!

At least not in the way that it's intended.

English and Arabic are the only one's that qualify as fluent for me, and I would certainly like to add Spanish and Mandarin to that range.

By the way, anyone given Rosetta Stone a try?

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Originally posted by DuBam This reminded me of the fact that I forgot German for a couple of years, now I have a job where I use it regularly. Thank God for that, since I would probably have forgotten it completely.

So it's easy to re-learn a language? I hope so, because my biggest nightmare is something like: "I see you've had French for 5 years in school. Good, we'll send you over there for 6 months."

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Originally posted by Meat187 So it's easy to re-learn a language? I hope so, because my biggest nightmare is something like: "I see you've had French for 5 years in school. Good, we'll send you over there for 6 months."

lol

When I started to re-use it, it was amazing how fast I started to remember things I hadn't even thought about in ten years. I guess it's like riding a bike, it stays in your spine, whether you acknowledge it or not. This is the case with me, don't now about the rest, though.

Haha, I'd forgotten most of my German, but one or two conversation courses brought almost all of it back.

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Originally posted by DuBam I can say aishiteru, but not to you! At least not in the way that it's intended.

I know some words and a lot of the hiragana. A lot more to learn, but I'm also planning a trip to Japan in the not so near future so that's going to help some too.

I'm also in the (very early) process of learning Japanese.

Pimsleur method really helps for speaking and understanding. Reading/writing is gonna be tough.

I'm always wondering, is there any incentive for you guys learning more languages or are you doing it for fun? Because I can see no fun in learning Japanese (for example) and I'm not interested in it at all.

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Urdu,punjabi,(arabic 25%) and a little bit of english.

English and... English. Did French since I was 6-7 till maybe 16.. (wow just realised 10 years lol) but can only remember weird random words...like..pen...computer.

Tried Italian...half a cd.
Tried Spanish...one cd.
Tried Polish...hmm maybe a couple of cds worth, but still basically nothing.

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Originally posted by Meat187 I'm always wondering, is there any incentive for you guys learning more languages or are you doing it for fun? Because I can see no fun in learning Japanese (for example) and I'm not interested in it at all.

I took German starting pretty young, and I picked up a little Danish while living there for a few months. French I need for a career though, so I will probably start taking courses as soon as I finish my current degree program.

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english

basic cantonese and mandarin
spanish i can more than get by i think. the only problem is native speakers speak a mile a minute so it's hard for me to keep up. especially during sin senos.