The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Cronopio]

I've spoken German for quite some time now. Dutch, however, is a language that I'd really like to pick up again.

 

[metal_wrath]

I envy you guys who can pick up a language so quickly

Starting from scratch (with no experience with languages) I have not gotten very far with German in more than 2 years, just getting somewhere recently after I started spending more time on it.

I'm learning for personal & academic enrichment and future career goals.

 

[damnromulans]

German is stupid. There's no reason you need three genders of nouns.

Japanese rules. No articles or plurals!

edit: Actually I quite regret not taking German until my senior year of college, maybe it would have been cooler to have taken three years of German instead of three years of Japanese

 

[metal_wrath]

German is stupid. There's no reason you need three genders of nouns.

Japanese rules. No articles or plurals!

edit: Actually I quite regret not taking German until my senior year of college, maybe it would have been cooler to have taken three years of German instead of three years of Japanese

Japanese is more stupid. There's no reason you need (at least) three alphabets including 1000's of Chinese characters

Every language has it's own peculiarities.

 

[waif]

Found out my final is on the 9nth instead of the 12th...which means that perhaps I can go home on the 9th. Kind of miss home. Can't wait till school actually starts up, though.

 

[Zephyrus]

There's no reason you need three genders of nouns.

You'd make one hell of a classicist.

 

[damnromulans]

metal_wrath is right. Japanese is a fucking retarded language that is mostly pilfering and mangling Chinese and more recently English. I hate the way it sounds and I hate how EVERYTHING is based on scripts and there is nothing more obnoxious than listening to middle aged men who end all their sentences in "desu ne"

 

[Blind Guardian]

What does "desu ne" mean?

 

[damnromulans]

Depends on context but usually it's kind of a rhetorical affirmation of what you've just said. for example if I said "It's hot today desu ne" that could mean "It's hot today isn't it." The worst is "Anou desu ne" because "anou" is just a filler word like "um" or "euh."

 

[mutantllama]

metal_wrath is right. Japanese is a fucking retarded language that is mostly pilfering and mangling Chinese and more recently English. I hate the way it sounds and I hate how EVERYTHING is based on scripts and there is nothing more obnoxious than listening to middle aged men who end all their sentences in "desu ne"

But them weaboos sure love it.

 

[damnromulans]

Yeah some people do. I don't particularly. I wish I had learned Chinese, much easier

 

[waif]

Chinese is stupid and difficult. Korean seems to be the easiest form of gook-talk.

 

[damnromulans]

Chinese is easy if you just want to be conversational. There is virtually no grammar and pinyin is super easy.

Korean has hangul which is loads easier than learning hanzi/kanji, but it's tough to pronounce and uses grammar similar to Japanese which is tough.

 

[Blind Guardian]

In a strictly vocabulary sense Japanese feels like it would be easier to me. It sounds softer and more similar to a European language. Chinese has all those sounds which makes you sound retarded.

 

[damnromulans]

haha. not where I am. if you can't roll your R's and spit indignantly you're a nobody.

to me swedish/norwegian/danish sound like galloping reindeer. Dutch does too

 

[waif]

German sounds angry to me no matter what tone of voice it's spoken in.

 

[Dak]

Which is why it's awesome.

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm half German, and find German girls hot.

Logic is logical.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

I speak German, Quebecois French and a fair degree of conversational Pashto.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm German and find Jewish girls hot, but only when they are near an oven.

It's weird.