What languages do you know?

Philippines
October 23, 2010 8:27pm CST
I often believe that due to globalisation, more and more people are learning new language, i have a basic knowledge in chinese, korean, spanish and japanese,and i really want to learn more...learn really well. and since I have a couple of korean friends (some teach me how to cook) i cant communicate with them well, because of the language barrier, so i really want to learn their language, so we could become closer. Can anyone give me few words that i have to learn in other languages, like the hello's, good morning, thank you, iloveyou and your welcome?
10 responses
@zausiu (610)
• China
24 Oct 10
It's easy for a kid to learn language but it's a painful and long long way for a grow-up to learn a language well. My mother tongue has very little population I only speak my mother tongue while communicating with my parents. Besides I can speak Mandarin and Cantonese well, which are both Chinese. People in mainland China and Taiwan speak Mandarin, people in Hong Kong and Macau speak Cantonese. I've learned English for 15 years I still don't think I can communicate well in English.
• Philippines
24 Oct 10
I understand what you mean, i heard mandarin and cantonese are very hard language to learn, i have mandarin as a foreign language course, i studied it for two semesters but after a year, i can only remember the very basic, i cant even converse with basic sentence anymore. Do you practice you english? i think it depends on practice, i can write english better than speaking them. my grammar, keeps on jumping when I speak english.
@zausiu (610)
• China
25 Oct 10
Yes, I never pass up a chance to practice my English. But I seldom have the chance to speak in English. Because of my occupation I have to read English document every day, sometimes I should write some. I still cannot understand English movie totally. Sometimes I can just pick up some words, I've found it's easy to understand English new report. I'm curious to know where are you from.
• Philippines
26 Oct 10
im from the Philippines, maybe that is why i can understand english better when i hear it, but speaking is really not my strength, i also have a problem with my p and f, pronounciation. i do belive that if its really not your native language, you are excuse not to be good at english, being able to understand and speak it is fine.
@Cargoleta (723)
• Spain
24 Oct 10
My native language is Catalan (which is spoken in north eastern Spain), but I'm also fluent in Spanish and English. I'm currently trying to learn Swedish too, since my boyfriend is from Sweden and I think it'd be so nice to be able to talk with him in his own language too :)
• Philippines
25 Oct 10
That'll be cool, can he speaks english well? I guess it'll be easy foryouguys to teach each other if you both can speak english well, easy translatins of meanings...
• Spain
25 Oct 10
Yeah, both of us are fluent in English, so we don't have any problems talking to each other. But still, it's nice to know the other person's language as well. Just as I'm learning Swedish, I'm also teaching my boyfriend some Catalan :)
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
10 Dec 10
Hello friend, i know only english and my own language - bulgarian. I think that here it's not allowed for us to use other languages than english, but i hope it will be o.k., if i say "zdravei" which means hello, "dobro utro" which means good morning, "zapovqdai" which means you are welcome. Keep learning It's so great when one person knows more and more
• Philippines
19 Dec 10
Thank you Suggar, i think posting new and few lines of another language would be fine. thank you so much. i just hope i would know how to pronounce these beautiful words.
@sanjay91422 (2725)
• India
28 Nov 10
I have knowledge of Hindi and English. I don't know other languages much but through my email I had some friends from different parts of world. If I have to say 'Hi' in Portugese then I say it 'Oi'. 'I love you" is written as " Eu te amo". I think everyone is familiar with the word 'Saionara'. I don't know other languages from other countries. In my own country the language get changed after a 70 to 80km span of distance. In the 28 different states we have different languages and in the state itself the language is different in the different district. It is hard to keep the knowledge of this much no. I feel happy for you. Keep the work.
• Philippines
29 Nov 10
sayonara in japanese? i guess so. i see, that is every ard too many languages in just different district, how can you survive? you must be very good at non-verbal communication.
@Xansus (946)
• Bulgaria
24 Nov 10
Well only my own (Bulgarian) and English :p I Might try to learn Japanese , since its normal for me to watch animes and i watched tons of them , so i started getting words and sentences :P
• Philippines
28 Nov 10
same here, ive learned basic japanese because of the anime and mangas too. o genki desu ka. peterpancomplex desu. hajimemashite. oh im not good with the spelling yet. but i can converse though in very very basic.
• Ecuador
10 Dec 10
My native language is Spanish, i'm from Ecuador, and i speak English too... i've learned English since i'm a child... i want to learn German too
• Philippines
19 Dec 10
Wow, that is great, i heard German is a hard language to learn, i really want to learn as many languages as I could. good luck to you!
@smartie0317 (1610)
• United States
24 Oct 10
I've always wanted to learn a lot of languages. Sadly, I only know English fluently and some basic Arabic (I plan to learn more). There's really no way to say a simple hello is Arabic. You can say good morning "El sabar el hair". If you want to say good afternoon or evening you say the "El sabar el" part and use the time of the day. I forgot how to say evening and afternoon. Arabic is a very specific language. Like you want to talk about your uncle, there's there ways to say it. One for your father's brother, one for your mother's brother, and one for the man your aunt married. If you want to say thank you you say "Shu-ger-on". If you want to know more, you can send me a message. This post is getting pretty long.
• Philippines
25 Oct 10
Thank you...thats really long, but i guess its the same in the philippines, we have different calls for different relatives and family members, whether its older or younger.
• Chile
24 Oct 10
i am a chinese . i learn English in my country.firstly ,i hate learning English,because it is so difficult for me to learn.but now,i like it ,for i find it is so usful in my everyday life.
• Philippines
24 Oct 10
Did you learn english in school, is it oneof your subjects too? its this way in my country, though i never really practiced speaking in english, until i went to collegethough because I am an extremely shy person, i don't make friends too often. I agree, it is very useful, it can help communciate with other people.
@wadabski (761)
• Philippines
24 Oct 10
Besides my native language I can speak English, Chinese and a bit of Spanish. I am half chinese by blood my dad is pure chinese and my mom is half filipina and half spanish.
• Philippines
28 Nov 10
your also a hapa person, very mixed with three different blood. i'm the same, but i don't even try to explain to people since i get confuse myself too. ^_^ isn't it fun sometimes when people just can't pin what race you really belong.
• Mauritius
3 Nov 10
I know french and english. I really want to learn spanish also!!! in french Hello - salut good morning - bonjour thank you - merci i love you - je t'aime in spanish hello - hola good morning - buenos dias thank you - gracias i love you - te amo chinese hello = ni hao good morning -(i don't know_ thank you - xie xie i love you - wo ai ni
• Philippines
24 Nov 10
xie xie ni!for the valuable information that youve shared.