母語は？what´s your mother tongue?

[poppop]

Majik4ever wrote:
アメリカ語です！
American.

「英語」でしょう？　

[sushi4ever]

Majik4ever wrote:
アメリカ語です！
American.

you're american language? wow XD
(think you meant 英語「えいご」, ne? )

[Majik4ever]

Well...

American English then.

英語をアメリカ語です。
（Ｉｓ　ｔｈａｔ　ｃｏｒｒｅｃｔ？）

[Adriano]

Majik4ever wrote:
Well...

American English then.

英語をアメリカ語です。
（Ｉｓ　ｔｈａｔ　ｃｏｒｒｅｃｔ？）

I think you´re little bit right.
My mother tongue is ポルトガル語, but all the japaneses calls "ブラジル語", because it´s so different from the portuguese of Macal, Portugal, etc..

[Chris Hart]

sushi4ever wrote:

Majik4ever wrote:
アメリカ語です！
American.

you're american language? wow XD
(think you meant 英語「えいご」, ne? )

Depends. Majik4everさん might live in Chicago, where the official language is American.

[sushi4ever]

Chris Hart wrote:

sushi4ever wrote:

Majik4ever wrote:
アメリカ語です！
American.

you're american language? wow XD
(think you meant 英語「えいご」, ne? )

Depends. Majik4everさん might live in Chicago, where the official language is American.

...which is just a mutilated version of english :p
(american english hurts my ears >.<)

[Chris Hart]

sushi4ever wrote:

Chris Hart wrote:

sushi4ever wrote: you're american language? wow XD
(think you meant 英語「えいご」, ne? )

Depends. Majik4everさん might live in Chicago, where the official language is American.

...which is just a mutilated version of english :p
(american english hurts my ears >.<)

I see from the shoutbox you're from Germany. I take it you are probably more used to BBC English.

[sushi4ever]

i grew up with a british army soldier, so.... yeah. just more swearwords than in BBC programs though

[little blue smurfgirl]

I'm Dutch and I'm fine with learning Japanese with English explanations etc., but sometimes it just takes me a bit longer to understand it (even while I don't need to use a dictionary very often).

Bit offtopic:

leergierig wrote:
My mother tongue is Afrikaans.

Do you really say "Afrikaans" in English, because this is the same way you'd say/write it in Dutch (just sounds really weird to me, I'm not saying it's written the wrong way or something). I was also really surprised how much Afrikaans(?) looks like Dutch when I red your signature (Traai toe raait Iengliesj joezieng Afrikaans vounettieks. Iets diffiekult. Prubeer om Ahfrikahns ta skrayf mett Engulsa funeetica. Diss muilik.), I understood it all!

[katafei]

I guess history is no longer taught at school......





*sigh*

[gollybype]

no!~ teachers doesn't even know the history!~ everybody were like discussing their opinions on what happened... btw..my mother tongue is visayan!~...^.- :p

[Shirasagi]

You know, 米語 is an actual (though hardly used) term in Japanese for American English...

[leergierig]

little blue smurfgirl wrote:

Bit offtopic:

leergierig wrote:
My mother tongue is Afrikaans.

Do you really say "Afrikaans" in English, because this is the same way you'd say/write it in Dutch (just sounds really weird to me, I'm not saying it's written the wrong way or something). I was also really surprised how much Afrikaans(?) looks like Dutch when I red your signature (Traai toe raait Iengliesj joezieng Afrikaans vounettieks. Iets diffiekult. Prubeer om Ahfrikahns ta skrayf mett Engulsa funeetica. Diss muilik.), I understood it all!

I guess I will answer even if it is a bit off topic. Well, I was just messing around with the orthography. If I were to write those two sentences correctly, they would be:

Try to write English using Afrikaans phonetics. It's difficult.
Probeer om Afrikaans te skryf met Engelse fonetika. Dis moeilik.

But, you are right. Our languages are similar enough to allow me to read websites written entirely in Dutch. By the way, "Afrikaans" is the way it is written in English as well.

Maar, laat ons probeer om weer na die onderwerp van moedertale terug te keer. Sterkte met die Japanese studies!
Let us try to return to the topic of mother tongues. All the best with your Japanese studies!

[gfunk]

Basque... anyone else speaks it around here?

[little blue smurfgirl]

katafei wrote:
I guess history is no longer taught at school......

I did know that the South-African language had some words and part of the language in common, but not this much (and I dropped history as fast as I could )

@leergierig: Bedankt, jij ook veel sterkte! Thanks, good luck to you too!