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[MadaraUchiha]

you really know how to read it? what does it say?
i wish i am bilingual too

you really know how to read it? what does it say?
i wish i am bilingual too

I think it's Ryokaishimashta. Not completely sure. I studied it for like a year so I need like a full minute to read it to some extent. And not everything. I'm wrong half the time.
If you are an Indian, you are at the very least bilingual, since you need to learn English apart from your mother tongue. And, if you are a South Indian(which I am), you need to learn Hindi too, which is spoken everywhere in North India(which is most of India).

 

[????????]

I know how to read Japanese(somewhat), but it'd be great if you post in English.

It just means "understood", so does the kaomoji at the end.

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I think it's Ryokaishimashta. Not completely sure. I studied it for like a year so I need like a full minute to read it to some extent. And not everything. I'm wrong half the time.
If you are an Indian, you are at the very least bilingual, since you need to learn English apart from your mother tongue. And, if you are a South Indian(which I am), you need to learn Hindi too, which is spoken everywhere in North India(which is most of India).

I thought people in India were spread evenly all over the country?

 

[MadaraUchiha]

It just means "understood", so does the kaomoji at the end.

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I thought people in India were spread evenly all over the country?

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No, not really.
The entire North Indian belt kind of speaks Hindi, but the states present in the Western side in the upper part of the country speak other languages primarily.
These languages have a close relationship to Hindi, sort of like how French, German are to English.
South India is completely different, we have 4 states and each one speaks a different language, and all 4 belong to a different language family that's distinct altogether.
Totally there's like 22 official languages in India.

 

[????????]

No, not really.
The entire North Indian belt kind of speaks Hindi, but the states present in the Western side in the upper part of the country speak other languages primarily.
These languages have a close relationship to Hindi, sort of like how French, German are to English.
South India is completely different, we have 4 states and each one speaks a different language, and all 4 belong to a different language family that's distinct altogether.
Totally there's like 22 official languages in India.

 

[MadaraUchiha]

Oh. Yeah, kinda, except for the North-East regions. I think. Though the population density in cities is(obviously) a lot more than other regions. But, the difference is like really, really high.
What made you ask that question?

 

[????????]

Oh. Yeah, kinda, except for the North-East regions. I think. Though the population density in cities is(obviously) a lot more than other regions. But, the difference is like really, really high.
What made you ask that question?

 

[MadaraUchiha]

Except for Kashmir, which is like the upper-most state in the country, and some parts in the North-East, the population is kinda evenly spread. Except maybe in a part of Rajasthan, where there's a huge desert present.
Kashmir is mountanous, cold, but more importantly, has a lot of border issues with Pakistan and China, plus elements of Jihad so entry into that region itself is like really restricted.
North-East has border issues with China, plus there's Naxalite terrorism there(Communist extremeists), so that's a problem there.

 

[Blackangel]

I think it's Ryokaishimashta. Not completely sure. I studied it for like a year so I need like a full minute to read it to some extent. And not everything. I'm wrong half the time.
If you are an Indian, you are at the very least bilingual, since you need to learn English apart from your mother tongue. And, if you are a South Indian(which I am), you need to learn Hindi too, which is spoken everywhere in North India(which is most of India).

then you are trilingual? that's so good. don't you get confused with that many languages?
i wish i know that many languages

 

[MadaraUchiha]

then you are trilingual? that's so good. don't you get confused with that many languages?
i wish i know that many languages

Nope because they are all very different so it's not a problem. Plus I've been learning them from when I was 3 or 4 so that helps too.

 

[????????]

The only Hindi (if it's even in Hindi) word I know is "Bhenchod", which I picked up from watching (or listening) to tech support scammer videos. （；＾ω＾）

 

[Blackangel]

Nope because they are all very different so it's not a problem. Plus I've been learning them from when I was 3 or 4 so that helps too.

that's really young. i don't think i could have happened that many languages as a kid. are you very fluent in all of them?

 

[MadaraUchiha]

that's really young. i don't think i could have happened that many languages as a kid. are you very fluent in all of them?

In Tamil and English, yes, and I'm off and on in Hindi.

 

[Blackangel]

In Tamil and English, yes, and I'm off and on in Hindi.

didn't you said you know japanese too in this forum? can you read and write? you could read manga raw

 

[????????]

I think he said he can read the Hiragana and Katakana scripts, which is just like 2% of the whole language.

 

[Blackangel]

I think he said he can read the Hiragana and Katakana scripts, which is just like 2% of the whole language.

is it harder than english to learn? i don't think i could ever master at least one language completely.

 

[????????]

is it harder than english to learn? i don't think i could ever master at least one language completely.

 

[Blackangel]

[quote="TechnicalSuwako" pid='89610' dateline='1522654833']

Just ask yourself, did any human being ever master any language at all (including native AND 2nd language)?
As for whether Japanese being harder to learn than English, it all depends on your motivation.

I can't count how many times I've heard from Europeans, Americans, and Australians saying that Japanese is insanely hard or impossible to learn.
Likewise, I can't count how many times I've heard from Japanese people saying that English is insanely hard or impossible to learn.

The problem really isn't that either of the 2 is actually insanely hard or impossible to learn, the problem is simply because both languages have absolutely nothing in common other than some loan words shared between the 2 (like the Japanese words sushi (寿司), tsunami (津波), or sudoku (数独) in English, or the English words ハンバーガー（hanbaagaa = hamburger）、レシート（reshiito = receipt）、ゲーミング（geemingu = gaming） in Japanese).

This particular problem along with being extremely distant when it comes to culture creates the illusion of English being out of reach for Japanese speakers and Japanese being out of reach for English speakers.
I'm among the many living beings that serve as proof that this is simply not true; of course you can speak both regardless of your native language(s)!
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there are people who claim they have mastered 16 languages sometimes even more. i don't know what it means to master something. i didn't know what japanese find english hard to learn

 

[????????]

there are people who claim they have mastered 16 languages sometimes even more. i don't know what it means to master something. i didn't know what japanese find english hard to learn

 

[MadaraUchiha]

As Suwako said, I only learnt Katakana and Hiragana, and some amount of Kanji. Kanji was really, really difficult.

 

[Blackangel]

[quote="TechnicalSuwako" pid='89615' dateline='1522655985']

Polyglots, they do exist and they basically mean "fluent" instead of "master".
It's just that "master" often sounds more incredible among the masses, but often when they demonstrate in a video all their languages and among them happens to be Dutch and/or Polish, I can barely understand what they are saying.

As for the last sentence, there might be more Japanese people that can speak English than the reverse, but that's because Japan has the advantage of showing lots of English text alongside Japanese in public if you're in a major city like Tokyo or Osaka, or other common tourist destination like Kyoto or Nara.
And you might even encounter some Russian text alongside English and Japanese in Hokkaido (northern most major island of Japan).
But if you're in a place where barely any tourist ever visits, then you won't be able to get around without Japanese language skills at all.

And in the west there's a hard assumption that the whole world can speak at least some English while visiting a different country, while in the east there's a hard assumption that anyone from outside the local country or area can't speak their native language, which increases the difference between amounts of English speaking Japanese people vs amounts of Japanese speaking westerners.

I'm hanging around on Japanese Discord servers all day every day, and those that know at least a bit of English are either from Tokyo, or have lived in a different country before, or are foreigners that can speak Japanese too (plus one person that's doing a well job learning from a small group of international members with no Japanese skills).
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it's weird that japanese find it hard to learn english. people wouldn't know unless they have tried but it's hard for me to imagine. their pronunciation is weird too. while watching anime i do laugh when they use english words

[quote="MadaraUchiha" pid='89635' dateline='1522683065']


As Suwako said, I only learnt Katakana and Hiragana, and some amount of Kanji. Kanji was really, really difficult.
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i didn't know what. how come one language got that many scripts?