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@okuribidreams (195)
Italy
July 3, 2010 10:54am CST
I am new here in myLot.
My name is Gaia, I'm very pleased to meet you all. I'm 22 years old student, I like to study foreign languages and culture, more different they are, more fun is it for me. As of now I speak Italian, English, German and I'm still studying Japanese, Spanish and a little bit of Korean and Chinese from time to time.
Which languages do you speak? What do you find useful to learn them? I personally prefer to talk with someone whose mother language is the one I'm studying and watching TV series and programs. And you?
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
6 Jul 10
You are very gifted to be able to speak all those languages. I'm Italian so I speak some Italian. Also, beside English, I speak some French and also some sign language.
Ciao!
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@okuribidreams (195)
• Italy
4 Jul 10
That's so cool, I would like so much to live there, sooner or later.
I don't know though, I don't find Japanese that hard to learn - when I tried Chinese, I encountered more difficulties. The kana alphabet is a big help in Japanese language, and the grammatic is not as though as I would have expected. The really difficult thing is to learn the many shades of the language, the formal one, the one for the women, the one for the men, the way you have to talk to a superior and the way you have to talk to someone else, and more than anything, the Keigo language.
@okuribidreams (195)
• Italy
3 Jul 10
And you too!
I see your country is Japan, are you Japanese or just living there?
@breezeforever (56)
• China
8 Jul 10
Wow,Wow,,
So amazing you could speak so many foreign language.And I do really admire you.I come from chiness and I speak both mandrin and cantonese.I'm also interested in Japanese and English.And in my spare I study them by myself.If you are interested in Chinese Maybe I can help you to know more about it.And how about Italian?It sounds wonderful.But it seems hard to learn.
@denzlangga (744)
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
Wow I am so amazed of your skills I have never encountered such you are the first one dear. Anyways, I always wanted to enroll myself in language school but I haven't got a chance to do it. If given a chance I would like to learn Spanish, French and Japanese language, these three are my ultimate dream language.
@okuribidreams (195)
• Italy
3 Jul 10
Thank you, you're so kind!
Actually, I think that when you start learning a language, you'll find out it's much easier than you would have expected. The first time are rough, but when you get the principal grammar rules, everything will be easier and more fun.
Spanish and Japanese are being great fun for me, I definitely recommend you to try if you have spare time, especially Japanese. If you need advice, I'm here. :)
@sweetloveforeve (13106)
• Portugal
4 Jul 10
hi gaia^^ i also like to learn many languages^^ i speak portuguese my mother language^^ spanish also more or less bcs is similar with portuguese^^ i speak english fluently and also french^^ then i just know some words in other languages but a conversation not muchy yet^^ anyway i would love to learn chinese and japanese also^^ i love asian things
@azeljeorge (56)
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
Hello....i'm amazed that you speak a lot languages. It's pretty amazing. I'm from Philipines so i speak our national language which is "Tagalog". But because Philippines is a country that was conquered by lot of nationalities long ago so lot of Filipino people are multilingual. We Filipinos have 2 main languages that we use and most people here in our country knows how to speak it, it is mainly English and Tagalog. But aside from that we also have lots of sublanguages which we called "dialect". Some of them are bisaya, waray, ilonggo, maranao, tausog, chabakano or broken spanish and lot lot more depending on the place that we live in. So aside from our 2 main language we Filipinos tend to speak our language from the specific place that we live. And on my case i can speak 4 sublanguage, english and tagalog. I am also learning how to speak arabic since i have a boyfriend brought up from middle east, and learning also how to speak japanese cause i think it's cool.
@okuribidreams (195)
• Italy
3 Jul 10
I see the Japanese language is becoming pretty popular lately!
I have some Filipino online friends, and all of them speak super English, and now I understand why. I'm pretty amazed by Tagalog, when I happen to read them exchange messages on twitter and such, and I would like to study that language sooner or later, just learn how to survive with few sentences would be enough. Do you use romanic alphabet or do you have another alphabet or script for Tagalog?
@sjlskl (3382)
• Singapore
3 Jul 10
I have no preference when it comes to talking to people as long as both of us can understand the topic. I have learn English and Chinese in school. I have also learned a few dialect (native Chinese people language) like Cantonese and Hokkien.
