Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Three different alphabets for one language? Wow, that sounds complicated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girl_from_uk Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I always thought a LOTE would be impossible, but I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Language Other Than English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I love Swedish and Russian, it's so cool and easy to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eneli. Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Estonian, English, German and just a little bit French and Russian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.