/jp/ - Otaku Culture

0.

one

I only know English. If I knew where to start, then maybe I would learn another language.

What else do you need other than American?

3.

Spanish, english and italian.

Do programming languages count?

spanihs, english, french, and ctalanoian if you can count it as a real one.

5.
Latvian , English , Russian , German , French .

1 and a half if you count being competent in grammar , but having a relatively small vocabulary as the half, I mean I could get by in a conversation if I needed to in that language, but I couldn't hold a very long conversation, nor read much real literature in it.

German and Hieroglyphic.

And Klingon

>>6480408

It does if you can communicate to others through it.

4, but I can make things out of pretty much every romance language because I'm fluent in 2+ of them.

Spanish and english, i tried to learn Farsi and Japanese but it's too hard.

French, english and a bit of spanish.

french, english, german, basic japanese

>>6480401
>American
Dohohohoho

4 + the amount of japanese I picked up.

American and Moon language

>>6480401

That's the spirit!

English, some German,

C, C++, Java, Haskell, Scheme, Prolog, x86 asm, Python, Bash

Finnish, English, French, German, Swedish and a little bit of Russian.

Of course i could say Japanese but it's only the usual crap that every /jp/ browser should know so it doesn't really count.

>>6480435

Are you a Finn?

>>6480436

Yes i am

English, French, Spanish, and some japanese.

The spanish + french means I can also accomplish basic communication with speakers of italian and portugese.

>>6480435

I've always wanted to be a Finn. ; _ ;

English, Serbian and Croatian (these two are so similar they should count as one), Latin, passable German.

>>6480451

I've always wanted to be a little girl but you don't see me crying.

>>6480450

Really? I know Spanish and Italian but I don't understand shit about portuguese.

French, broken English that's getting worse every day. Browsing 4chan all day literally hinder my mental capacity and soon I will need a paper to remember my name.
I suck.

English and German

Currently learning Chinese.

12 languages, 6 of which are programming languages.
In order of learned: Japanese, Korean, VBA, perl, Ruby, English, C, C++, C#, Chinese, French, German.

>>6480462
Crying on the inside

;_;

English and Spanish, enough french to understand it in conversation but not be able to formulate a grammatically correct response.

>>6480469

As I understand it, Portugese is to Spanish like Scot Gaelic is to English.

English and spanish, may learn portuguese for work reasons.

>>6480473

I actually learned english browsing 4chan.

I mean I knew english before, but there was no way I could talk the way I'm doing it now.
I can also watch english movies without subtitles thanks to this, now I'm thinking about doing the same with 2ch.

I'm using smart.fm to try and learn japanese. Going pretty good so far

Only fluent in English. Reasonable reading capacity in Latin and Ancient Greek. Slowly learning Sanskrit.

Two, french and english. Spoke both growing up, french in the house, english outside of it.

I'm learning Japanese right now but I'm only 1 and a half year in, so I basically can just have simple conversations, so I wont count it.

Shitty thing about French is that I live in Canada and I still have never used it outside of my family.

>>6480489

And how are you doing with Kanji?

trying japanese of course but its like tackling an elephant running at full speed

>>6480488

I've actually been using Krautchan.net to improve my German, and it's been doing wonders. I also get to pester my teacher with obscure German memes.

Deutsch und English.

>>6480488
It was once my case too, a long time ago but with all the umad faggotry and lack of real discussion I regressed somehow. And somehow my French is also getting worse.

Five.

English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

Two and a half, I can say. Brazilian Portuguese, English, and just a bit of French.

Only really one. I know a very small amount of Swedish.

English, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian

>>6480476
Says Werhner von Braun.

Would you like to dance the Masochism Tango, as well?

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish (obviously, duh)
English
German
Can read kana, so Japanese I guess

I'm freelance translator.

english and japanese.

5

Spanish as mother tongue (And with that, I'm able to understand Portuguese and Italian pretty good)
Bable, the tongue from where I was born
English as a tongue that I'm learning since I was four
French for two years
Japanese for two months in classes.
And a touch of Korean that is teaching one friend in breaks, just basics for secret speaking....

English, Spanish, German, and I guess my Japanese would count for maybe half since I'm not fluent.

English and پښتو , some Spanish

weeaboo level Japanese is a given of course.

French, Spanish, Latin, English (native), taking Japanese classes.

>>6480561

>weeaboo level Japanese

Which one is that?
Simple terms only or does it include grammar?

Polish
English
Some German
Some French(Studied both for 3 years each, but had little opportunity to use them since)
A little Japanese.

English, basic French. Trying to learn Japanese but it is not going well since I'm unable to take courses for it.

>>6480561

Where are you from?

English
Mandarin
Cantonese
Japanese
Korean
Klingon

>>6480497
I'm only doing romaji mode right now, since I'm focusing on understand speech right now. Plus with other modes they want me to type shit that I can't

>>6480569
>weeaboo level
ability to spout out random words common to anime, nothing more nothing less.

>>6480580
America.

>>6480488
I'm about ready to try that.
The problem is 2ch has like infinity boards and I don't know which are interesting.

English, Japanese, Spanish.

>>6480613
I only lurk on the eroge boards, personally.

>>6480613

They even have a cat board.

Just stick with video games or touhou boards.

>>6480488
do you mean to say that using 4chan sentence structure and such, that you learned the language.. learning from the sentences used in isolation - or is it that you were learning english as well as using 4chan, in which case it could very well mean you werent learning from it very much if at all

English, Cantonese and basic Japanese.

>>6480640

I knew basic english grammar. The kind they teach you at school.
Using 4chan as my only english source, I learned the language and common expressions. Believe it or not, that's enough to read almost any kind of book I find.
Then again I've been here for 2 years, so I had to learn something.

Greek, English, French, A bit of German(highschool days) and Japanese from my Japanese galges.
Learned some basic Latin, but mostly textbook stuff I do not care to remember.
Reason I did not have problem studying them is that 'it's better than learning anything Ancient Greek related'.

>>6480589

I've done the Kanji and Kana version before, and you can type it all with a western keyboard. You just type the correct romaji and it turns it into kana.

Fluent Dutch and English, basic German and very little French.

زه پښتو شګرد يم

امريکه مرګ کيږي

>>6480662
>Using 4chan as my only english source, I learned the language and common expressions
Goodness. I hope you don't try to use 4chan's "common expressions" in polite company.

>>6480662
just wondering if you made posts in that time learning or if you just read. since it seemed to work for you, id think about doing it for 2ch but i dont think i can post there. your english output seems good

Spanish (native), English, French and Japanese

>>6480773
This, minus the french wich I'll start to learn in january.

>>6480489
This is what I'm using as well for Japanese.

As for what I know currently. English and Spanish. Some French, but I'm trying to forget.

>>6480757

I consider the way we are communicating right now to be polite, or was I wrong?

>>6480771

I didn't post at that time, but I did put an effort in reading. 2ch will be different though, since they don't use the roman alphabet. Kanji makes it incredibly more difficult.

You'd think /jp/ users wouldn't bother with other languages... the only point of being a linguist is to converse with others. Sometimes I wish I could just say "no English" when people talk to me.

>>6480797
I doubt they were 'destined' to be /jp/ ers all their life.
I first started using Internet when I was 18, till then I just...did relatively normal stuff, including learning

>>6480797

Learning a new language expand your horizons, not only in real life, but in the Internet as well.
I don't think /jp/ has a problem socializing over the internet, as long as they find someplace to establish.

>>6480805
You'd be surprised

>>6480797
Learn Icelandic. No one outside of Iceland speaks it. This way when people ask you a question in public, you act like those English speaking Mexicans that act like they don't speak English, but far more effective as there's no chance they speak it as well.

>>6480794
so how did you learn to construct sentences with proper grammar? did it kind of just evolve and suddenly you decided to type a post and it came out right? did you do any formal grammar studying on your own?

>>6480783
Don't learn French, it's an annoying and ugly language.
I choose it as a tertiary language in high school, regretted ever since.

I ain't know any languages.

>>6480813

Like I said, basic grammar was something I got from high school.
When I first started in 4chan I could understand everything... but with a dictionary in hand and 5 minutes per word.
Some things I REALLY didn't get I would ask my sister, since she is studying to be an english teacher.

English: Native
French: Intermediate
German/Dutch: Intermediate
Chinese: Speech - Adv. Beginner / Writing - nothing
Japanese: Speech - Intermediate / Writing - Preschool

Never bothered with any other country, just used phrase books and translators.

>>6480829
hey sis
what does 'pleasure of being cummed inside' mean?

English - Fluent
Cantonese - 2-year-old level
French - Limited

>>6480834

Well... I won't lie, there were some awkward moments...

english as my first language
a little bit of signlanguage i learnd from my deaf freind in highschool
and really slowly learning japanese right now
and im terrible in all three

>>6480842
"Hey sis, what does 'pleasure of being cummed inside' mean?"
"...let me show you"
That kinda awkward?

>>6480849
I think you mixed up awkward and arousing.

>>6480854
I've got an older sister myself, so believe me, I didn't.

Dutch - Fluent.
English - Reasonable.
German - Enough to get by.
French - Limited.

And of course weaboo level Japanese.

>>6480815
What!? Really?
I've always found it sexy, you should try it in bed!
"Faire l'amour avec moi"
"Pas à l'intérieur de moi!"
"J'y suis presque!"
Qu'entendez-vous le préservatif s'est déchiré!?
"MERDE MERDE MERDE!!!"

French... the sexy sexy language of love...

English - fluent
Japanese - kawaii

>>6480799
I guess I can't speak for everyone but I was pretty much destined for this my whole life. My college experience was exactly that of Welcome to the NHK, and that was 5 years ago. Before that, in middle/high school I was just your stereotypical introvert, just played games and kept to myself. oh well.

>>6480859

I can relate to this.
Maybe the reason I like loli so much is because I never had an imouto for myself? And instead got this easily hate-able nee-san 5 years older than me?

English, German, French, Dutch

>>6480869
Going to a shitty university, getting Internet at 19, and finding a not exciting with many chances of promotion but 'easy' and deadline based job at 21 led me to this oath

There's too many people in this thread, why you guys never post?

>>6480869
I think I was also destined to be a /jp/er.

I have a long history of being autistic.

I could have also ended up on /v/, that would have been terrible.

>>6480875
You must really hate HP then, all he does with his life is travel the world on a shoestring fucking women and having fun.

Fuck you HPMH.

>>6480877

Who says I don't post?

>>6480877
Survey threads always bring out the lurkers bro.

I see them lurking all the time too.

>>6480873
>>6480863
Ah, the standard language pack all Dutchies are equipped with.

Also, am I the only one who learned English(or any other language) from playing video games?

>>6480887

People should talk more, i always samefag and talk to myself in most threads ;_;

>>6480888

I learned japanese FOR the video games, not the other way around.

>>6480877
/jp/ has become a bit too repetitive.
Shitposting is one thing, but seeing the exact same shit, kinda boring/

>>6480888
I'm not a "Dutchie" though, I'm german and have never been to any dutch speaking country.

>>6480895
Lurker here, it's /jp/ we are talking about. Social interactions are not our strongest point.

I only come out to yell at people talking about how much they love having sex with real women.

>>6480887

Ahh, the classy audience.
Too timid to even post in an anonymous board... how I love them.

>>6480877
Why should I post on here. I'd only get "reported lololol xD" shit as an answer. I only browse /jp/ for the quick information.

>>6480877

See now you scared them...

>>6480888
Dutch here. I could speak English fluent (but writing with grammar mistakes) at 11 years old thanks to cartoons and video games.

Now if only that worked for Japanese as well.

>>6480923

It would work if you were 11 again.

It's waaay much easier to learn a language as a kid.

>>6480908
Why, it's not like anything informative or interesting is posted here ever.

Also, Saturday night == lots of posts.

>>6480877
because the larger part of /jp/'s userbase is made of apathetic people who just enjoy the antics of shitposters vs reportfags with casuals mingling in

/jp/ isn't about /a/ + VNs and touhou, nor is it about otaku culture, it's about retards entertaining these people

>>6480887
Strangely true... I have spent an insurmountable amount of time on 4chan over the last 5 or so years of my life, and I post maybe once a day. I'd say I post less now than when I went to /b/ 3+ years ago. With all the silly shit that went on, it was easy to join in.

/jp/ is quite different, obviously, even if its a lot of the same people. So I just end up lurking.

>>6480905
this, probably. I(we) love you too.

>>6480933
Yes it is. I get the my infos on new VN releases etc. here the fastest.

English, Filipino(Tagalog, Bisaya) and a bit of Japanese (although not enough to have a conversation). so 2

English, Japanese and Filipino

Deal with it.

>>6480960

See

>>6480954

You are not special.

>>6480877
I don't want to shit the place up too much, so I usually just lurk.

Some Ukrainian, English and enough spanish to get prescription drugs, lunch and my dick sucked.

English is my main, I know elementary level Spanish, high school level Latin, and weeaboo level Japanese.

English and a basic understanding of Spanish.

English and Russian

greek,english,japanese

American

Spanish, Korean, English and learning Japanese right now.

Spanish - Mother -
English - Learned through games, without dictionaries. Yeah, I don't know how that worked -
Japanese - I know about 300 words and like 20 kanji -

Three fluently, three more well enough to read but not quite good enough to keep up a conversation.

Enough written Japanese to use 2ch, Swedish spoken only and of course English.

English, Russian (fluent, but getting worse), Japanese (intermediate?), Spanish (abysmal)

I have stuff in the VNTL thread

And yeah, >>6480908 that. I used to post quick translations of random tidbits on here, but now it's just tiring.

I am learning Japanese and Greek right now. I'll probably not find much use for them but I like them both.

>>6481173

G-Gears of Alice?

2.
Chinese, and then English. Since I already know Kanji, should I go for Japanese as well?

German: Native.
English: Fluent. It's slowly becoming my main language.

Japanese: Not fluent yet, but getting there. Can read most stuff I come across, apart from really sophisticated novels and philosophical texts. Understand most of what they say in anime and such.

Spanish: Used to be fluent, but dropped it in favor of Japanese. Can still read it for the most part.

Finnish: Took classes for a few months, but quit because it was too hard (and the course sucked, like all other classes I've ever taken). Much harder than 日本語, curiously enough. I'm still pretty weeaboo for Finland though.

>>6481225
nah, Kanji are actually pretty useless for Japanese.

English- Fluent, but I tend to stumble when speaking sometimes.

Tagalog- Fluent, but hate the language. You can't get away without using an English word in a sentence nowadays.

Japanese- Intermediate, and slowly getting better, but I need to work on my intonation a bit.

French- Limited. I took one year of it in High School and disliked it. I've forgotten most of what I've learned.

i meant to ask the dude who learned english from 4chan if he can speak english well, since i am assuming he never practiced that

>>6481561

I'm still here since I'm also the OP, and no I can't speak fluently.
It's not that I can't speak per se, it's just that the accent makes me bit my tongue. I don't have that problem with japanese though.

can you describe what you normally did to learn? ive been studying japanese for around a year and i can barely understand any spoken dialog, barely read manga even if i know most the kanji, and cant speak at all. you would think studying for 3 hours a day for a year would mean something.

QUALITY THREAD

English - Native

Japanese - Intermediate

Mongolian - Intemrediate

Chinese- Intermediate

Russian - Beginner

German - Intermediate

Latin - Intermediate

French - Intermediate

Spanish - intermediate

Linguistics major.

>>6481880

Disgusting phony.

English, fluent.
Spanish, mother language.

>>6481878

Well if you understand basic grammar, I think you should probably just start memorizing vocabulary.
What I did with english was visit this page and look up every word I didn't get in the dictionary, they eventually get stucked in your head you like it or not.
Once I had enough to handle myself, I started playing games in english, then VNs, and finally books.

But then again, japanese is harder just for the fact that is using a different alphabet that the one you grew into, but if what you say is true, I think you are just missing vocabulary.

English- Fluent. Been speaking it since I was 3 or 4. Given that I grew up in Canada and the US, it makes sense.

Polish- Not so fluent. The language I grew up in around (my family were immigrants), and the fact that my family stopped speaking it hasn't helped me learn it.

French- What little I've learned from the three years of high school french. I can understand conversations, but I can't speak it to save my life.

Japanese- What I've been studying for the past three years. I'd say I'm working on it.

>>6481878

Sounds about right. It takes about four years of university-level Japanese to get to intermediate level (JLPT2 or so), if you're motivated enough. At that point, you'd still need a lot of practice on your own if you want to read most manga or VNs somewhat smoothly - there's a lot of lingo that you won't see in any textbook...

And don't expect too much from self-study. It's not a science. You'd need to take an introductory course early on to get started in the right direction, at least.

I only speak English because I'm a filthy Americunt and our foreign language courses (sans-college level classes) are fucking terrible. The teachers I had would rather bitch and nitpick about how our uniforms were never in perfect order (fucking private school) or bitch and nitpick at a group of normalfags who were always texting/listening to their ipods/being retarded (fucking public school).

The education system in this country is atrocious, for more reasons than what I listed of course.

>>6481921
im studying vocab via srs, it takes hours every day since i am at around 6000 facts/12000 cards and add 20 words. supposing i knew twice the amount of vocab, sure i could understand more, but its going to take another 12 months for that to apply. was hoping for a quicker method.

>>6481878
I've learned English mostly by playing computer games. Morrowind in particular. Maybe 6 hours a day. Took me 1 or 2 years to become fluent. My pronunciation sucked at first, but I fixed that by watching some American TV shows in English (I got rid of my TV because broadcasters in my country dub all foreign shows into my native language).
As for Japanese, I simply studied a fuckload of 漢字 and then spent a lot of time reading manga/VNs and watching anime.

I'd say the most important thing is not to use bilingual dictionaries. Either use a monolingual one (doing this with Japanese right now) or none at all (did this with English for the most part).

>>6481943

Sorry, I'm no teacher myself, and It's not like it was quick for me to get english, it took me 3 years just to talk normally if you count high school.

Spanish, English and some of Portuguese.

>>6481938
Fuck, I got caught up in my rant.

I meant add that teachers these days would rather do shit like that instead of actually doing their jobs and teaching. When you took four years of German in high school and all you can remember from it is halt die klappe sau you know it was pretty bad.

>>6481938

You can't blame the educational system if you were going to a private school, they are not part of that system, you know.

i know english the japanese i had learned so far in rosetta stone and some nigger talk

>>6481957
Yeah, I guess you're right, but that particular private school was pretty bad. I could go on and on about it all night but I'd don't feel like making myself look like a whiny faggot with bullshit from years ago that I'm still mad about and to this day can't get over tonight.

i know english, i know the japanese i had learned so far in rosetta stone and some nigger talk

i know english, i know the japanese i had learned so far in rosetta stone and some nigger talk

>>6481935
>It takes about four years of university-level Japanese to get to intermediate level (JLPT2 or so)
I lol'd.
I started teaching myself Japanese only last year and JLPT2 is piss-easy for me, JLPT1 seems perfectly doable from what I've seen on their website.
Also, I'd say knowing enough to pass JLPT1 means you're intermediate. If you only know enough for JLPT2, your 日本語 is still shit-tier.
I'm so glad I'm studying something actually useful instead of Japanese or some other language.

>>6481938
>because I'm a filthy Americunt
'kay
>our foreign language courses are fucking terrible
Most foreign language courses everywhere around the world are terrible. You can't really learn a language just by taking classes, it's something you have to do on your own. Europeans who are good at English mostly learn the language because they use it in their spare time. Like for dicking around on the internet or watching American movies.

Spanish. Then some portuguese, italian, and english. And just a very little of chinese and almost none of japanese.

Punjabi, Hindi, English and high school level Spanish.

Theres gotta be at least one other indaboo here.

>>6481878
Anon,it's all about immersion. Here's a general outline of what I did;

I started studying last year, around august I guess, it then took me 2 months or so to study basic Japanese and learn 500 kanjis, after that, I immediately started playing eroge specifically Tsuyokiss. At that time, reading it was hard, real hard, as in it took me 5 or more minutes to decipher the unvoiced lines. After about,a month and a half I was able to finish nagomi,erika and yoppi's route (yes, it took me over a month to finish a supposedly 10-30 hours game). Now, it's been over a year since I started and I've gotten to the point where I barely need to use translator aggregator to read eroge.

tldr; If you want to learn japanese then study basic japanese (use Taekim's site), learn 500 kanjis(use kanji damage + anki) and then play eroge like crazy (start with easy shit like tsuyokiss)

>>6482010

Thank you for that advice.
Would you say visiting japanese sites helps the process?

>>6481998
>indaboo
what's so great about India? I don't dislike them or anything, but the only really cool Indian things I know of are yoga, the food and the mythology.

>>6482010
*learn Japanese to read eroge

>>6482010

Every page I visited said that speeding up too much made you forget everything you have learned, was that a lie or you really took many breaks during those 2 months?

2 and 1/2 I guess.
English, Vietnamese, and some amount of Japanese (enough to play the typical eroge without dictionary and engage in conversation).
Granted, I'll never touch Liar-soft game without a translation patch.

>>6482010
what I dont understand is how people play games and such without dedicated formal vocab study. there are tons of words with tons of kanji which look similar, and its not likely for words to repeat in a game in a time frame that you could remember it in.

knowing the readings and rough meaning of each individual kanji in a word is the only way I can see it being successful, but that requires a good amount of time to reach that point. doing it from less than a year's worth of learning seems impossible to me

>>6482023
Dat filename.

Anyway, I love the way of life and culture there, especially in the farmlands. So carefree.

The people however, not so much. Most of them are just trying to make a quick buck, so business matters usually don't end well. That put aside though, yeah the food is great.

>>6482010

ok, you have inspired me.
If what you say is true, then the next months I would eat, breath and shit japanese until I have no soul inside my body.
No video games.
No anime.
No /jp/.
JUST STUDY 10 hours a day at least.
I'll need new glasses when I'm done with this shit.

>>6482038
Reading in context, especially something you care about (not shitty generic textbook sentences), is by far the best way to learn. It doesn't seem like it would be but the brain responds to it really, really well. Moreso than just flat out drilling.

>>6482047
>No video games.
>No anime.
...but watching anime and playing video games IS studying Japanese!

>>6482053

You may have a point.
3 HOURS OF ANIME AND VIDEOGAMES
THEN 7 HOURS OF STUDYING JAPANESE.

>>6482017
At that time, most of the sites made no sense to me(since I only knew 500 kanjis). It's probably best to just stick with eroge, or some shounen manga.

>>6482038
Although I never had this "formal vocabulary study", I did have years of watching anime and hearing the fucking same vocabulary again and again (and again). In any case, it really is a matter of immersion, at that time I was doing one of these things: trying to read Tsuyokiss, watching anime, reading some japanese grammar tutorial, increasing my kanjis (i made it a habit to learn 20 a day)

If you really like something, nothing is impossible (at least learning enough japanese to read most eroge is possible. Anon, I'm a fuckin living proof, not to mention I know two other similar guys, oh and one of them has already passed jlpt lvl 1.)

>>6482047
That's the spirit. It'll also help if you could focus all your thoughts on a single eroge. I had all my thoughts focused on playing little busters! and last summer, after hours of hard work and nights of dreaming of playing it, I was finally able to read through it.

I'm think I'm considered a polygot so I know quite a few.
Fluent:
Bosnian
Chechen
Turkish
Ingush
Russian
English

Passable:
Georgian
Albanian
Azeri
Arabic
Romanian
Slovene
Ukrainian
Greek

Learning:
Spanish
Esperanto


English

>>6482066

Oh, another question.
Do you have to be always refreshed studying japanese? Can I start studying right now even though I have lack of sleep?

I want to start as soon as possible.

english, spanish, some Italian

4
Filipino, English and Basic Japanese and Chinese

i dont know how people learn conversational language in less than a year. do they just really suck at vocab?

pick up a fucking book and look at the words - theres like a thousand uncommon words per page that a native knows for sure but good luck as a second language. nuclear. shrubbery. roller coaster. aluminum. dissect. raptor. octave. iron-willed. procrastinate. hex. petrify. ghastly.

>>6482080

Just do it. Also, as much as possible, try to establish a habit (e.g. studying at the same hour everyday, learning x number of kanjis everyday). You should also avoid giving excuses like "I'm tired, I'll study tomorrow." or "I should take a break, I've already learned a hundred kanji, I deserve a bit of break", excuses like that leads to nothing. Anyway, once you've decided something, just do it. Even if you're tired or sleepy, suck it up and just fuckin do it.

I know English, and whatever amount of Japanese I've managed to teach myself, approximately enough to navigate websites, read small blurbs while consulting a dictionary every other sentence. I still get mentally exhausted after more than three large paragraphs or so.

I also know some basic Spanish, but it's been declining and I really don't care as I find Latin American culture backward and dull. I've tought myself more Japanese in a year than the public school system managed to teach me of Spanish in six.

I'd like to be little more cultured and possibly branch out into other languages once I have a handle on Japanese but I can't think of any countries outside of Japan and the anglosphere that really contribute enough in modern cultural exports and Internet presence to justify that.

I know English, and whatever amount of Japanese I've managed to teach myself, approximately enough to navigate websites and read small blurbs while consulting a dictionary every other sentence. I still get mentally exhausted after more than three large paragraphs or so.

I also know some basic Spanish, but it's been declining and I really don't care as I find Latin American culture backward and dull. I've tought myself more Japanese in a year than the public school system managed to teach me of Spanish in six.

I'd like to be a little more cultured and possibly branch out into other languages once I have a handle on Japanese but I can't think of any countries outside of Japan and the anglosphere that really contribute enough in modern cultural exports and Internet presence to justify that.

>>6482107
Korean perhaps. They've made a significant "internet presence" lately. I mean, fucking Starcraft man. Korea's also gaining relevance globally.

>>6482113

I can play Starcraft in English and I hate pop music girl groups.

>>6482107
Russia and Finland are two other countries with a very developed internet culture. They also make decent video games, although Finland's games are mostly produced in English I think (see Max Payne). Russia also makes good movies.

So many replies and no one asked for source of OP's pic yet?

>>6482121
Not a Koreaboo, but there's more to Korea's modern culture than bland K-pop. Korean dramas, Manwha, MMO's exist although I don't really know what you're into.

You could tackle Chinese if you're still not convinced, but personally that's lunatic mode. You'll get to see all the Wuxia dramas you want.

>>6482095
They don't (well, except for very young folks with photographic memory, maybe).

There are always people trying to take shortcuts, trying to tackle all vocab in one go, etc., but in the end, well... there aren't really any. If you're interested in becoming fluent in reading/speaking/writing, learning it as a whole will still save you time in the end.

Particularly with Japanese. Not to detract from >>6482066 's achievement, but most people making claims like those tend to be overestimating their own ability the same way that folks on /jp/ mistake edited machine translation for real one...

(that said, I agree that just reading stuff you like does indeed help with vocabulary, a lot)

>>6482150

That must be because everyone but you knows who it is.

That's Franziska from the Ace Attorney series.

>>6482067
>I'm think
>a polygot
>Fluent:
>English
Yeah, right.

On topic,
native Polish speaker,
fluent English,
intermediate Chinese,
intermediate Korean,
basic Japanese,
basic German,
babby French.

I've been an English teacher in Asia, been teaching in Korea (2 years), China (a year and a half), Japan (half a year) in this order. Japan sucks so I left it after only roughly six months and went back to China which I am currently in.

>>6481998
India is quite awesome, Anon.

I'm a huge Greeboo though. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism

Russian and English.

>>6482154

I'm >>6482066 and I agree that there's no shortcut to learning Japanese, the only way to learn is by actually spending (lots of) time and effort on it. However, it is possible to make the road to learning it a lot more interesting (e.g.learning through reading eroge).

>>6482182
Did you just grow up with Russian? I've been wanting to learn it.

English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, and some Korean.

>>6482152

I'm mostly into ugly fringe novelty things. I like Japanese noise music, violent horror and explotation films, and obscene pornography. Video games too, but not MMO's. I wouldn't limit myself to any of those, though, it's just that all I've heard of South Korean culture is kimchi and SNSD.

I considered Mandarin because it's an interesting language but I don't know much of anything about Chinese culture, and given China's reputation as a nanny state I expect it to be whitewashed and boring. There's Taiwan, but they don't seem to be known for anything despite having a less oppresive creative climate. Cantonese doesn't seem worth the effort.

English, French, and Japanese
In that order

engrish, korean, japanese, spanish.

Indonesian
English (fluent now, everyone I speak to at least thinks I'm born in America)
Shitty Japanese
Shitty Mandarin

I'm living in Taiwan now though so in about a year or so I should have functional level of Mandarin at least.

i speak every languages close this shitty blog thread

/jp/ sucks

i want my touhous ^^

English, Kiswahili, Japanese

>>6482236

0.95 + 0.6 + 0.05 + 0.05 = 1.65 languages?

3

French and english
i was supposed to speak vietnamese but i've forgot everything with the time

Finnish, English, Swedish.

Swedish, native
Internet English, fluent
Japanese, could probably pass N1
Chinese, writing and reading = good. Speaking and listening = abysmal

three

- Two native languages (bilingual family)
- English: fairly well I guess? I mainly use this language where I work at.
- French: took it for 9 years in school. Haven't had much use for the language so I've sort of lost my touch with it, but I did get around nicely the one time I visited France.
- Japanese: been learning this very actively for some time now. I'm at the point where I can read visual novels mostly without trouble and without looking up kanji that are less rare than 壹.
- Swedish: took it in school. I can understand it to some degree.

French, english, german and japanese.

Primary English

Decent Spanish (can read just fine, some difficulty understanding native speakers, and can't speak it very well because I get nervous)

Japanese picked up from weeaboo shit. But I wouldn't say I "know" it.

English is the only language I'm fluent in. I know a bit of Spanish from relatives, but I can't really say that I can survive on it. I'm trying to learn Japanese, but I'm too lazy for it.

I'm only really fluent in two languages, Swedish and English. I dabble in other languages as well to better understand the history and culture of any given country but nothing beyond that.

Italian, English, German, French, Japanese
Weakest one is probably German, I stopped at a beginner level and it's been ages since I tried to form a coherent sentence with it.
I would like to learn Russian sooner or later, but kanji doesn't leave much space for learning a whole new language as of now.

English + Spanish, picked up decent listening skills with Japanese and can read Hiragana/Katakana, but haven't tried to really learn it, considering taking a class in college for it.

Polish
English
German
Taking Russian course
Japanese as university major
I want to learn hymmnos

Spanish - Native
English - Fluent
French - Can read it, but that's about it
Japanese - Lower than basic

English 5/5
Dutch 5/5
French 4/5
German 4/5
Spanish 3/5
Japanese 3/5
Lithuanian 2/5

I'm not sure what the majority here mean by "fluent" but I'm sort of jealous. I live in Russia where the language classes in schools are so bad that people in their late teens can hardly hold a basic conversation in English. As for me, I study English, German and take Italian courses and still cannot say that I speak them well. Maybe I have no talent for learning languages.

German 5/5
Spanish 5/5
English 4/5
Catalan 4/5
French 2/5
Japanese 2/5

>>6485015
>I live in Russia where the language classes in schools are so bad that people in their late teens can hardly hold a basic conversation in English.

Shit like that is common around the globe.

How's about some of you post resources to learn?

despite knowing thousands and thousands of japanese vocab, i still feel like a caveman in both reading and speaking. its like... "he play game fun time she got mad he didnt do laundry"

>>6486186

Read a lot of stuff in the language you want to learn, that's how i learned english, the only problem is that your pronunciation will sound like shit but i don't think it's a problem since most of us barely engage in a conversation with others.

I know American English so in reality I know about 5 languages.

私はぜったい日本語を知らないでげそ