2010-06-06, 01:20 AM
Kevo Wrote:Learning any new language is difficult.
Yes, but some langages are harder than others depending on your native language. too lazy to dig up the study showing the top most difficult languages for native English speakers to learn. I think Cantonese was on the top.
Quote: I actually find their alphabet harder than the Kanji characters.
Kana? Really?
Quote:When I took French in High School, it was pretty challenging. I find actively speaking a language is the best way to learn, but I suppose that's kind of hard if you are just focusing on listening. I love foreign language classes a lot though... they're very enjoyable having taken French and Mandarin (although that's kind of cheating :x)[quote]
Ugh. I took French and Spanish in High school (again, we couldn't pick classes, so I was stuck with these two despite how much I didn't want to learn them). Failed both. French teacher went soft on me and decided to just pass me so I wouldn't be stuck with Spanish or French again.
[quote]In my High School, the Japanese teacher was a Caucasian. I went to his classroom once and it's so saturated with Animes it's sickening... although I heard that the teacher speaks Japanese very well and teaches well.
When I was growing up, I was a bit ahead of the "Toonami boom" so to speak. By the time DBZ and stuff were airing, my age range were getting out of watching Cartoons. Of course, that stuff was still popular at the time with even high schoolers, but this early on it was a bit difficult to find anyone who really liked anime other than the ones airing on Toonami, especially someone who would openly talk to others about it in an attempt to form a social clique.
So I never really got to experience that kinda thing first hand. I see it if I happen to be outside in a nerdy place though (Pokemon events, manga isle of a bookstore where there's people laying on the floor and reading even though there's a designated reading area in the store, etc.) but I've never been in a situation where I'm forced to be around someone who's being annoying.