Hey all,

I can't remember if I had posted here before or not. I vaguely remember reading posts here ages ago when Mae started the thread...anyway, I'll try to join in the fun Will start with an intro on myself

I personally can read, write and converse in 4 main languages (in order of most fluent to least): English, Mandarin, Malay, Japanese

I know Cantonese but I'm not confident in writing it as I'm not sure if some words appears as how I speak them they seemed different on the canton subs on HK drama ^^; Learning how to listen, understand and speak "Hokkien" as my workplace is predominantly Hokkien speaking community.

As for Japanese Kanji, I may not always be able to read as in pronounce them out, but I'm able to understand some of them by guessing what it mean based on "Chinese Kanji" (Traditional characters)

All in all, English remains my primary language as everything else is in a "confused" state due to my bringing up. I live in Malaysia, a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual country.

My education history (in terms of language medium) is a bit "messed up":
Kindergarten and younger - English educated (ed.)
Primary/Elementary - Chinese Ed.
Secondary/Highschool - Malay Ed.
Tertiary/College & Uni. - (back to) English ed.

So I practically have to relearn everything in each education stage ^^; What on earth did I put myself through?

@KTC
LOL at the Cantonese phrases. We Chinese used them quite often. Goodness! We make ourselves sound so barbaric xD

@daeva_agas
I think I'm sleepy or something cause I somehow read "Gao Xue" as "High Blood (Pressure)" ("Gao Xue Ya")

No wonder I couldn't make any sense until I read the next line xD

English: Where´s my rubber ducky?
Estonian: Kus mu kummipardike on?

@Elie: LOL, that's why... I've pretty much forgotten how to speak mandarin/chinese. I'm not even sure if that's right or not.. I can understand bits and pieces when I hear people talk in Chinese but I can't say anything back

@d_a: Same here... And in my case, it's even worse because I still have Mandarin classes/lessons/whatever you call it.

i still learn madarin but always forgoten
i just can speak japan~ likey:
Watashi wa Indonesia-jin desu

Mandarin is hard to learned,
really annoying with the pronounce,

Tonality and stuff, right? And how the pronounciation do not match the spelling. "k" is read in a "kh" while "g" has a "k" sound in Chinese/Mandarin. Ugh.

Yes, and i really don't have my moods in learning them. I mean i study about them cause my school had that lesson.
Huh

same as u shade... ==
n we read 'B' as 'P' in mandarin ==

example: baba ► papa

Yeah,
that's happened to japanese too, as the romanji of v is b, i suppose?
But it's rather fun to learn them

japanese ish more easier i think ==

Yes, but maybe not.
But i loved to learn japanese, though.
I know few words, but i don't know the letter.
Hhe

@shadowshed: It's not that the romaji of "v" is "b". The Japanese do not have "v" sound in their language, so they substitute "v" with "b" because they sound similar. e.g. vampire = banpaiaa in katakana ["n" before consonant is pronounced "m"].

Yeah, Japanese is easier than Chinese because they don't have the tonality and stuff. I mean, with chinese, same word with different tonality means totally different things. At least with Japanese we only have words that sound the same but means differently and the "same writing different reading different meaning" thing (homophone? Homonym?). Chinese have those two AND the tonality thing. That's annoying.

@agas: yes, it's more like similar sound when pronounced, with another one like 'n' sometimes sounded like 'ng'.
But still, i got that romanji is something like words pronounced, so that can be a similar way.
And same with you, it's rather hard to me to understand how to speak chinese with it's tone correctly. And maybe it's with homonym, homograph, or homophone.

chinese: MAI DONG SHI
just know that sentenses... the meaning in Indo:
Belanja bersama...
eng: Shopping together... as i remember ==

I thought 'mai dong shi' means 'buy things' @_@

@Ivana: still, it has similar means, buy things and shopping. You know about chinese too?

just remember that ==
another sentenses i learn now forgot by 1 mins after et... =.=

@kiri: just think the simplest ones. Usually beginners will learn 'ni hao' things, i still can't remembering colours in chinese.

ni hao ish hi ryt?
can i speak sunda? it's more easier~
chinesse to hard plusing make me bad mood ==