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Dark Caddisfly

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Mar 23 07 1:57 PM

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I think for foreigners who come to america, they should learn how to speak English instead of us learning to speak their language! I mean, we were here first so, either you learn to speak english or you leave! In baltimore, it's required that you take a foreign language class. I do want to learn to speak japenese but my school doesn't offer that. I did take spanish for 3 years in middle school, but I failed 2 years and passed the last year with a 90.

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DeckuZora

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Mar 24 07 1:34 AM

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I take Japanese but you have hiragana (japanese letters), katakana (Chinese words), Romanji (Japanese words spelled with the alphabet), and then you have to learn culture, manners, foods, phrases... etc. It is nightmarish! I actually wouldn't go but it's a requirement of the school (only forein language we learn). Heh. But now I can count in korean and Japanese! Hana, tul, set, net, taset, yaset, ilhop, yedel, ahop, tel. Ichi, ni, san, yon, go, roku, nana, hatchi, kyuu, and jyuu.

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Mar 24 07 6:07 AM

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Our school does Japanese, Latin, German, Spanish, French and Italian. I only do German and Spanish. My school is a language collige, so it has quite a few languages.

Miravistel

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Mar 24 07 7:56 AM

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I used to take Japanese, too, and you forgot something Dekuzora: There's hiragana (Japanese characters that represent a syllable), katakana (also Japanese characters that represent a syllable, but are used to spell foreign words and sound effects), and kanji (derived from chinese characters, which each represent a word or idea.) Romanji isn't technically part of the Japanese language, it's basically Japanese words written phonetically in English so that English-speakers know how to pronounce them.

DeckuZora

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Mar 24 07 11:04 AM

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This is why I get Bs is music and Japanese. I keep getting stuff like this mixed up. Romanji is easy to learn but after that...

Elfgirl Mchan

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Mar 26 07 9:52 PM

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I took 4 years of French, 2 years of Latin, and 2 years of Japanese...I've also continued to teach myself Japanese after my course schedule wouldn't allow me to ideally take any more Japanese classes. Hey, continued learning without the grade...works.

As far as origins...I'm from the US and have lived here all my life. As far as my ancestry is concerned, for the most part, I'm 3/4 Scottish and 1/4 German. That's the simple answer. I probably have some French and English back in there somewhere, and I'm also either 1/16 or 1/32 Cherokee....one of those two.

Also, I'm related to Benjamin Franklin...which just amuses me.

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Miravistel

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Mar 27 07 4:20 AM

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You're a 1/16 or 1/32 Cherokee, too? Hey, we may be distantly related! :P

Darkwolf Cor

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Mar 28 07 12:51 PM

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I think for foreigners who come to america, they should learn how to speak English instead of us learning to speak their language! I mean, we were here first so, either you learn to speak english or you leave!

Indians were there first, but you didnt learn their native tongues, did you?

But I digress. As far as I know, my roots are Spanish and Peruvian. Latin America is a big soup of genes due to the Spanish conquest, and trying to track down our origins is oten very difficult.

BonzaiRob

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Mar 29 07 8:05 AM

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In England we obviously have English, and then in Wales and Scotland they have Welsh and Scots (Scots is fairly similar to English, Welsh isn't), and in Cornwall and Northern Island they have Cornish and Irish, which are both Gaelic dialects (along with Scottish Gaelic). Also, Welsh has no word for brown.

Also, you weren't there first. Vikings got to northern parts of your continent, you should be speaking Scandinavian. Columbus spoke Portugese, although he never made it to America, just the Indes. You speak English there because America was part of the British Empire.

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Mar 29 07 3:25 PM

I shudder to think that we would even attempt to learn all the different Native American dialects and languages. They weren't unified in language, but those who started America were so it's only logical to learn the language the US was founded on.

I decend from a long of Englishmen but I do have German blood through one line which is pretty awesome.

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Shining ShinE

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Apr 1 07 9:56 AM

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I'm completely Dutch in my origins, which is probably rather boring :P I'm supposed to have/had really far-off relatives in Germany, though, so perhaps there is some German blood left.

Elfgirl Mchan

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Apr 3 07 10:42 PM

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That might be true, Mira. You never know with that Cherokee blood. XD

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DeckuZora

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Apr 4 07 8:17 PM

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Like ShinE, I'm pure as far as I know. I have no idea about any other blood so for all I know, I could have European blood that's been diluted a couple thousand times. There is a test where they take a swab of cheek cells that you mail (that's right, in an envelope) to a lab where they track down your nationalities. I might do that when I get older. Heck, who knows, I might not be as Korean as I thought I was. Oh, and Elfgirl, is learning Japanese on your own hard? I'd think it would be immensly. (maybe that's because I'm an overactive 13-year-old who likes to stare at the ceiling instead of work... How I get As, even my teachers don't know.

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Elfgirl Mchan

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Apr 5 07 8:26 PM

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If you really focus on it, learning Japanese on your own is not that difficult. (Heck, I'd been learning some of it since I was 13!) However, I find that the best way to learn Japanese is to do a combination of self-teaching & taking a class or so. Granted, the level of success with teaching oneself would probably depend on the books at your disposal as well as the effort that you put into it.

Depends on the person. I happen to be good with languages AND interested in Japanese, so that helps me. Regardless, it's just a combination of interest and effort.

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Apr 6 07 1:14 PM

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Effort won't be my problem. Neither will the books. I'm just too busy to do it on my own. I'm always busy drawing or I go online or I'm playing basketball or running track. Then I have homework which i work bare minimum in (somehow still getting As)... I just contradicted myself. I said effort wouldn't be a problem. lol.

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Dark Caddisfly

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Apr 7 07 5:02 PM

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Well, I would learn it but as I mentioned b4, I don't have that at my school and I'm too lazy to do it on my own.

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Elfgirl Mchan

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Apr 8 07 10:14 AM

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That's why you set a little bit of each day aside to learn/study some of it and refresh yourself/learn new stuff the next day....XD

Also, you don't have to do it RIGHT now. But yeah...I'm sure you can get to some of it at some point. ^_^

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Dark Caddisfly

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Apr 11 07 9:04 AM

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It would help me to better understand some of the anime I watch and when I'm on Youtube, I can watch the undubbed versions of digimon savers and understand it!!!

But that's easier said than done!!!!

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ninjamatt2

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Apr 12 07 12:55 AM

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Digimon?

SACRALIGE!!!

You shall never utter that word again on these forums!

Anyway, I could do Japanese at school, but I doubt in our school they would teach anything good, and I wouldn't have the patience to keep it up. I can barely rememberone of the two languages I learn now! German is the easiest though. Spanish es muy difcil.

Dark Caddisfly

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Apr 12 07 8:52 AM

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I think I posted this but I took 3 years of spanish and failed 2 years of it. But the last year I past cus I got a 100 on my final exam.

And what do you mean I can't say digimon on this site?
digimon digimon digiomn digiomn digimon digimon digigmon digimon digimon digimon dgigmon dgimon digigmondgigimon.....gasp...pant..too much...typing...of the..same,,,word.....*passes out*

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