Lorem Ipsum - The Language Club!

droomph said:

walcom :)

So how's learning languages for you without the whole hearing part? Must be really hard to use outside of the Internet :P

And speaking of sign language, do you find it easy to communicate in sign language in other countries? As in, is it similar, or is it as different as the spoken language is?

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Arigatou!

I do have hearing aids, i mean it's hard but I do try to learn it, and I ask her to help to be more clear she said it's fine.

As for American Sign Language is similar to spoken languages, they are not international, the most similar sign language out there is French Sign since one French man was teaching a american deaf girl Sign Language, and it carried over here. but each country sign language is different. But Sign Language as a language is awesome, but it comes with a knowledge of deaf culture too! :) It's awesome, and the deaf people I have met in my life are amazing and i feel connected to people more who sign cause i can understand more, cause when people speak to me, I always have to say what, and I can't hear, and people get irritated at my hearing :/

コナンくん said:

Arigatou!

I do have hearing aids, i mean it's hard but I do try to learn it, and I ask her to help to be more clear she said it's fine.

As for American Sign Language is similar to spoken languages, they are not international, the most similar sign language out there is French Sign since one French man was teaching a american deaf girl Sign Language, and it carried over here. but each country sign language is different. But Sign Language as a language is awesome, but it comes with a knowledge of deaf culture too! :) It's awesome, and the deaf people I have met in my life are amazing and i feel connected to people more who sign cause i can understand more, cause when people speak to me, I always have to say what, and I can't hear, and people get irritated at my hearing :/

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So say, if you went to Guatemala and talked (signed? idk) to deaf people, would you understand the gist of what they're saying, or would you need an intepreter (pretending that you don't know Spanish, etc) to get meaning across?

droomph said:

So say, if you went to Guatemala and talked (signed? idk) to deaf people, would you understand the gist of what they're saying, or would you need an intepreter (pretending that you don't know Spanish, etc) to get meaning across?

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Nope. they're probably be like "what sign is that?" its like a spoken language, gotta learn it in each country to understand what they're saying.

What languages do you speak, and how well do you speak them?
English is my native tongue, but I speak a fair amount of French, a very small amount of Spanish, and a tiny amount of Japanese, Greek and Croatian, but for all of these languages, I can't engage in a conversation yet. Also, I've been told that I have a great accent for said languages :)

Also, what are some online tools that you use to help learn?
I usually watch language learning videos, especially one who was quite vulgar but didn't rush through the whole thing, he took it slow which helped a lot. Sometimes I play games in those languages to grasp what the words mean, and even Google Translate helps for singular words rather than a phrase.

Learning for me is quite difficult if I don't repeatedly go over the words, or if the video goes too fast to understand. I know Hiragana/Katakana, and the Greek and Croatian alphabets.

sorry I had to ignore this for a while…whatever the reason was, I'm back :î sooo

Airbourne Bubblun said:

Greek and Croatian

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tell.

tell us moar

all the things

My Greek is just very limited, but I could try... (not done in Greek Alphabet) Ya Sas, Me lene Air, shero polee. (Hello, my name is Air, pleased to meet you.)
As for my Croatian, it's a little better. Dobre Večer moji prijatelji, zovem se Air, drago mi je. ja sam dobro, i Dobrodošli na Pokecommunity! (Good Evening my friends, my name is air, nice to meet you. I'm good, and Welcome to Pokecommunity!)

I might have gotten the Croatian a little wrong, but I'm still learning. :D

I'm also trying to learn Polish :p It's hard to learn when you have no connections to any polish people though :/

So where do you learn your croatian? Website or irl?

الس ايم لرنن ذعربية ابجد

it's really awkward because I don't know any arabic :p

hi!

how come everyone i know on here lives in a different country :p makes me feel …;;

so what were all the selection of languages in your high school system?

hiinotama said:

•WaniKani
WaniKani, like explained before, is a website that teaches you Kanji using radicals. it uses an SRS-system to allow for optimized memory retention and minimal amount of invested study time. it's (still) in closed beta, but when i asked for a place i was admitted within 24 hours. it's not Free, though.

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YOU KNOW WHAT'S ANNOYING?

THEY SHOULD JUST TELL US UP FRONT THAT IT'S NOT FREE

BECAUSE I FOUND THAT OUT TOO LATE

AND I HAVE NO MONEY

AT LEAST NONE THAT I CAN WASTE

so speaking of japanese

do you find it annoying when people go "genki desu kaaaa~~~" online instead of just using kana and saying "げんきですか〜。" I don't know why, but it annoys me endlessly :p

Lol anywhere I step into the realm of Japanese entertainment (including Pokémon :p) I see weeaboos everywhere.

But then again there's probably wannabe Americans in Japan too (specifically the Yankii lol) so I really think it's a teenager thing around the world to want to be something different for when they have all the deep voices, big boobs, and chest hair they want :p

Now tbh my friends and I do this all the time but it's always out of the "street talk" book which always inexplicably tells you how to have sex in that language and then do drugs :p

hiinotama said:

you use 'street talk' with your friends all the time? XD; i agree that there always seems to be some sort of reference to anything 'badass'; sex, drugs, alcohol... crime? i'm not really a part of that world. never really have been...

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oh whoops I should mention also that we do it jokingly :p we don't get that culture either lol

it's something I made up :p if you want to know i'll break it down for you

tha - just "placeholder" pronoun. Similar to how we say "it was cool!" instead of "toy story 2 was cool!"

yr - indicates that the verb (at the very end) is transitive.

thaer-i-ea-g - tree-(plural)-[(adverb ending)-(adverb)]

vi - to be, or to exist, or to live, or to reside in. Pretty much just you're "around" something a lot of the time, or it exist.

Erei - with (preposition)

meni-thede-r - (to)hunt-tha(possessive)-(direct object form of definite article, "eu") "the hunted"

sze-eu - (to)do-(noun) i.e. "doing", "being hunted [as the direct object implies]"
(the e-e is separated because it's not clear whether eu is part of the word or "the" otherwise.)

thae[r]-l-[ieag] - tree-(diminuitive)-[plural-adverb] i.e. "tree branch"

scui - (to)go
("en" is the proper marker, but it's not needed as the subject is implied.)

Basically,

"It lives tree-ly. With the hunting of its prey happens, it jumps branchedly."

I'm sorry to say that I'll only be able to add you once I feel safe exiting my room, but welcome regardless! :)

And no, I don't have a name for it. All I have right now is L1, which is the codename for it…Though I'm still working on it so you guys can probably help me with ideas for the name :p

It's more a hobby than a real thing I'm working on, so don't expect much development lol

I CAN'T HOLD IT IN ANYMORE

IS ANYBODY INTERESTED IN OKINAWAN

BECAUSE I AM

BUT THE INTERNET DOESN'T

SO I'M SCREWED

BECAUSE I KNOW NEITHER *FLUENT* JAPANESE NOR OKINAWAN

AND I CAN'T AFFORD A TICKET TO JAPAN