<p>Not Chinese or American-born Chinese for that matter. I can kind of decipher what is written in Chinese and can write some, because the characters are the same as Japanese for the most part. I understand a few bits and pieces of Chinese and can say some things correctly because I have a school full of Asians, but mostly Chinese people.</p>
<p>I’m half-Filipino and I can’t speak really any Tagalog at all. Kind of frustrating, especially when I hear some of my Chinese, Vietnamese, or Korean friends speaking their heritage language. T-T</p>
<p>@angespanges I like those groups too, although I haven’t gotten as much into miss A’s music as I have Big Bang/2NE1.</p>
<p>i’m sorry for assuming most of you were Chinese! yeah, that was kind of insensitive of me. as for me, i can speak Chinese fluently and a bit of Japanese since i was born there (yeah, long story). i can read a bit, too, but i can’t write at all.</p>
<p>I’m Chinese and was born in China, but I can only speak Mandarin at probably the level of a 5-year-old 
I still watch Chinese TV shows and dramas, although sometimes with English subtitles.</p>
<p>@Quidditchcat how many kanji do you know?</p>
<p>Not that many… Maybe about 1000. So not as much as I should know if I’d gone to hoshuko (Japanese school), which most Japanese in my area do. </p>
<p>@unlikely: that’s okay, I guess my reply was a little blunt</p>
<p>Hello, everyone. I’m Indian and I love rice and my parents pressure me to get good grades and get into a good college. Despite what my predominantly white classmates say, I consider Indians as Asians, considering the fact that India is in Asia.</p>
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Me, minus the Indian part. (:</p>
<p>Indians are Asians, unless you specify oriental.</p>
<p>Well there’s someone who speaks sense. But I’ve always wondered… are Russians Asian, European, or Eurasian? Part of Russia IS in Europe…</p>
<p>I consider Russians Eurasians. Have you heard of Russian Chinese? It’s like people who look Russian but are actually ethnically Chinese and vice versa. idk the specifics though. There’s also the Ainu people who look somewhere between Russian and Japanese.</p>
<p>^I think I know what you’re talking about…they’re pretty rare, though.</p>
<p>Hello fellow Asians! I go to an All White-Black school. This might be a good relief for me to FINALLY socialize with some fellow peer Asians, but since I cannot see your faces, I doubt this’ll be of any good to me.</p>
<p>Whatever. Hello!!!</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, has anyone taken the AP Chinese or Japanese test just because they can? I’m tempted to take the AP Chinese test, but man would it be embarrassing if I didn’t score a 5 ( Mandarin is technically the first language I learned). What I’m concerned about is the reading- I mean, there’s sooooo many characters and the slightest variation in a character means a completely different word.</p>
<p>I’m not Chinese, but I’ve heard that the AP Chinese test is harder than most AP tests to compensate for the native Chinese speakers. (Is it just me or does “speakers” sound like a weird word?) You can always look through some prep books and see if you’re able to breeze through the practice tests. Honestly, I don’t think it would be embarrassing of you didn’t score a 5 - so long as you don’t score a 1 or 2.</p>
<p>I’ve heard AP Chinese tests roughly what an 8-10 year old in China knows… (but don’t quote me on that)</p>
<p>If that’s true, and you speak Chinese to that level (or if you speak it at home all the time and you’re fluent), then by all means, take the exam. Maybe get a prep book if you’re not comfortable with the characters.</p>
<p>Oh, really? I didn’t know that AP Chinese was equivalent to a 8-10 year old’s Chinese. Just out of curiosity, do you think that this would hold true for other languages? French, Spanish, Japanese? </p>
<p>Sadly, I’m assuming Latin would be the equivalent of Caesar’s age when he wrote his De Bello Gallico. (Disclaimer: this is a half-attempt at a joke.)</p>
<p>For Japanese, it’s more like a first or second grader’s level of Japanese. I think, unless they increased the amount of kanji.</p>
<p>@quidditchcat I think I know around 500ish? kanji I only have time in the summer & a little bit on the weekends to learn new ones.</p>
<p>Also: Does anyone read/watch One Piece?</p>