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Ignore all the blue-line bullshit. That's for writing.
But the sounds. It's really fucking similar to the English alphabet and our vowel noises. When you see it without the Romaji (Romanized translation along the bottom of each symbol) then it blows your mind - what the fuck is this Matrix bullshit!?!?
But it's all easy. Just down to rote memory.
Of course they've got 3 alphabets effectively - Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji - which they culturally appropriated from China. The evil bastards.
The main thing when learning Japanese is to try to not say everything in a samurai voice. It's quite hard when you've grown up on a steady diet of samurai action movies.
The nipper was translating platlets, red blood cells, and white blood cells into Japanese at bed time.
The British are terrible with speaking other languages, so breaking down those stereotypes is good.
My daughter is 12 she loves languages, she does Spanish and Mandarin at school. she is constantly learning bit of languages on Apps and Youtube, usual Europan stuff like Spanish, German, Dutsch, Russian.
She has been teaching herself Korean during Lockdown3, I'm well impressed by it.
Encourage languages !
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
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Being bilingual also means being able to revert naturally to the most modern vernacular and not using words or phrases that are uncommon since the 1980s or have changed meaning .
Eg ; Oh, we had such a gay time
It also means not having a discernable accent of a foreigner ;
Ah zo ,zis is precisely vot I am conzerned about
They just shout loudly in English when addressing Spaniaeds.
My neice was brought up learning English and French. It was extra cute hearing her throw random French words into sentences until she fully got to grips with it.
There's quite a few bilingual schools here in Scotland. It was quite trendy for a while to send your kids to one.
My friends who has Brazilian wives, the mum speaks Portuguese at home, the dad speaks English.
Im bilingual (tri if you count a minor Chinese dialect), never occur to me it’s something special, learning English is out of necessity and not a hobby, much of what the rest of the world does, they learn it as it’s the international language. But it’s funny when my friends sees me talking on the phone to my mum, they are surprise to see me speaking another language. It’s funny seeing their faces.
However, my current girlfriend is French and is fully bilingual. Spurred on by lockdown boredom around this time last year, I've really been making a concerted effort to teach myself French as best I can. Not gonna lie, at 39 years young and with a busy and tiring work life, progress isn't exactly breakneck speed!
I have no kids from my first marriage, and my girlfriend and I have no intention of starting a family. But on the very unlikely off chance of that changing, I'd be 100% raising them bilingual.
3 months to learn enough Italian for basic conversation level, I think that’s pretty cool.
Probably a lot easier now to maintain second languages, given the availability of internet media, and satellite TV shows