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[maromi12d3]

Anyone speak japanese? Or is learning?

[Saya]

I can pick up the odd word and I can read hiragana and katakana, but sadly thats probably as far as I'll get to go with it, its been a while so I'm not confident enough to pick it up again with a third semester of it.

[Godslayer Jillian]

Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.

[nis~sijai]

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.

Hehe, I was about to say the same thing.

I took a year of Japanese class, so I could probably last about 30 seconds into a conversation before becoming completely lost.

[maromi12d3]

Yes in fact that is exactly what I want to do!! No but seriously I'm only doing this in my spare time. I'd liked to learn spanish one day too. And possible German but right now I am concentrated on japanese. I don't even watch anime anymore Jillian.

[nis~sijai]

By the way, the name of your thread should be 日本語.

[maromi12d3]

Hopefully one day I'll visit Japan and Singapore. I'd like to do something more in my life than watch tv without subtitles.

[maromi12d3]

Originally Posted by nis~sijai

By the way, the name of your thread should be 日本語.

有難う？　Is that right?

[Drake Dun]

私は話せる。

勉強を頑張って。　：p

[Hand Hanzo]

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

Let me guess. You wanna be able to see anime without subtitles.

Yes, yes I do. I only know a few basic phrases in Japanese. I'm around the language all the time though...I play a lot of fighting games where the characters speak it, I watch a lot of anime, and I listen to Japanese music every now and then.

[Tam Li Hua]

If you want to visit Singapore, then you should know they primarily speak Mandarin Chinese there, and not Japanese. [Though, to be fair, it's a rather large melting pot, so you could stick with English and be just fine. ]

If you don't learn either, then I would highly recommend the Lonely Planet phrase books for all your language translation needs.

[Hand Hanzo]

Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua

If you want to visit Singapore, then you should know they primarily speak Mandarin Chinese there, and not Japanese. [Though, to be fair, it's a rather large melting pot, so you could stick with English and be just fine. ]

If you don't learn either, then I would highly recommend the Lonely Planet phrase books for all your language translation needs.

I used to have the Lonely Planet guide to traveling north-east Asia.

I second this recommendation.

[dead_dreams]

I'm learning.