<p>En ingles, por favor!</p>
<p>El burro sabes mas que tu!</p>
<p>I've taken French for 4 years in a non-traditional no curriculum program with a native French speaker. I've read many famous texts in their entierity in French and I feel pretty fluent in it. I think it's possible to become somewhat fluent in school if you have the right environment. My class doesn't have a textbook, doesnt really do tests, and just relies on student motivation + active participation. We write a lot of papers and read a lot.</p>
<p>I must say though that I wish I had taken Spanish for it's practicality! I think in college I will stop French and learn Spanish or Chinese (don't know which yet)</p>
<p>Reeze, i cant believe you, but guess you worked hard.</p>
<p>Japanese uses Chinese characters but they're simplified tho. I believe learning Japanese... man...</p>
<p>I'm Korean. Lived in Japan for over 10 years.</p>
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<p>They can't be much worse than the British empire, the Nazi empire, the medieval Catholic church, the U.S.A., etc.</p>
<p>BTW, as much as I admire British history and culture, they are totally full of <strong><em>. They act as if they were so great in WW II when it was mostly due to the blood of the Russians and the wealth of the U.S. that the Nazis were defeated, not because old Winston Churchill said a few words during the Battle of Britain. And the British empire was not as benevolent as people like to think it was. They made life extremely difficult for many peoples. History textbooks are *</em></strong>*** too, like in this one I used in my class, it reports how half a million Indians died due to inter-religious fighting after Britain "so graciously" granted them independence. It makes it seem like the Indians were/are too stupid to govern themselves without some kind of British overseer, yet they conveniently leave out things like how the British allowed half a million Indians to starve to death when they could've alleviated the famine. </p>
<p>Maybe the thought of a non-Eurocentric world scares the bejeezus out of you. I hope it does because your narrow little mind could use a rude awakening.</p>
<p>Not that I'm a huge fan of China or anything. It just annoys the hell out of me when people are willing to look past such atrocities committed by European or American powers, yet act as if a superpower China that commits its share of humanitarian violations is somehow Armageddon. Yeah, those sneaky Asians can't be trusted, unlike the white man that continually breaks promise after promise, yet is "one of us". **** you.</p>
<p>Umm okay. </p>
<p>To each his own language.</p>
<p>Mais je pense que tu es un cochon qui pense qu'il parler francais tres bien mais en realite il est un loser qui seulment peux parler en l'indicatif.</p>
<p>Que la baise vous juste a-t-elle indiqu</p>
<p>Just stop. Now.</p>
<p>nbachris2788,
What Eurocentric WH text is this? I guess it is not surprising that the authors also fail to admit that the British suppressed everything, then pulled out all their leaders within weeks of declaring Indian independence, killing the whole political system and leaving a millions defenseless.
And whoever said that Europe was scot-free: I hope that Amritsar (1919) and Kanpur (1857) mean something.</p>
<p>Hmm... would any of you (or should I say, "have any of you") attempt to read Anna Karenina in Russian or the Quran in Arabic? That would definitely kick a**.</p>
<p>Read the Quaran in Arabic? Other than the one and a quarter billion nutjobs, the rest of us have something productive to do.</p>
<p>... the Qur'an is actually quite beautiful. Arabic poetry is pretty much awesome. ALso, it's offensive to talk abotu religion that way. I took a course on Islam and the Qur'an seemed pretty chill to me.</p>
<p>non, je ne suis pas un cochon! je suis tres belle! (et je suis une femme aussi!) haha et non, je ne parle pas francais tres beaucoup ou bien, mais j'adore la langue! oh francais!</p>
<p>SO you're just a stupid wannabe french little girl? Sweet/</p>
<p>Les Fran</p>
<p>お前らばっかじゃねーの？</p>
<p>hahaha well i'm certainly not stupid, and you can't really fault me for appreciating the french language...but uh think what you like, it dosent bother me piggy! :)</p>
<p>Crap, i thought nobody would understand Japanese.</p>
<p>日本語はむずかしいです。。。</p>
<p>일본어는 공부하기 힘들담...;; 역시 한글이 최고? 여기 한국사람 없을려나.. 한국 사람 있으면 한글로 대답해주면 고맙3. (아 있긴 있군요)</p>
<p>Je ne parle pas francoise... I can only read abit of french, but i can't make a complete (correct) sentence very well..</p>
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Ummm...it makes sense they have 3 systems. One is for foreign words, one is for words in Japanese taht don't have a Chinese symbol and one are the Chinese symbols. It makes it fun and interesting to learn. BTW, Japanese is harder than it looks. Japanese grammar is a ***** and people try to put Indo-European language structure to it. It doesn't work that way. </p>
<p>Japanese is more than just the grammar. I think Chinese is easier to learn. Except for tones ><
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<p>Do you need a different letter system then english to know a foreign word? (even if its chinese?)</p>
<p>Koreans just use Hangul system and we usually get it when its a foreign word...</p>
<p>Its just difficult for me to learn because I don't know chinese characters that well ( i only went to school in korea for a year) I have most of the hiragana memorized but katakana's going to be pain to learn again...</p>
<p>O BTW, Korean and japanese actually has the same grammar pattern so its easier for Koreans to learn it... (harder for Americans)</p>