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I'll be flat out honest: I can't stand Asian languages in general. It's not just the Chinese, and I'm not trying to be racist.
It's like all the people who say German is an ugly language, but people don't get on their cases for that.
Personally, I'd take German over Chinese, but that's just me.
I don't know what it is, but it's like French: I just don't like the sound of the language.
I wouldn't hate a person just because they spoke the language or said they came from the country, it's just given the option, I'd rather not listen to the language.

/redundant

Okay. I'm not [i]mad]/i] at you, I just thought it was a bit tactless. But I do see what you're saying. Asian languages, Chinese especially, can sound pretty harsh in comparison to English. All languages you aren't familiar with can sound alien. But people actually go out of their way to soften the sound of Chinese by adding small sounds to the end of each sentence, so a request doesn't sound like a command.

And I've never heard anyone say German is an ugly language.

Plus, let me just say something: One time my friend was joking around and "imitating" Chinese by going, "Ching chang clang chong cho" and then saying to me, "I can speak Chinese!!" I told her that that wasn't at all what Chinese sounded like and that it was inappropriate. She got all offended and said that if I imitated French (what she takes) she wouldn't get on my case. But the thing is, Chinese people were always imitated in the past, called dirty Ch*nks, and teased constantly because of their accents, etc. When they emigrated to America they were always on the bottom, viewed as scum even below the Irish and Scottish immigrants who were also disrespected a lot. However, people have never really made fun of the French. They're always portrayed as distinguished, and people automatically think of Chateaus and butlers and elegant ladies and petit fours being served at teatime when they think French. They were never on the bottom, and were regarded as diplomats pretty much straight through history. Don't you see what I'm saying? Chinese people throughout history = scum; French people throughout history = noble and on the top. So it's more hurtful to have someone make fun of Chinese than French, because it's hard to make fun of French anyway.

There should so be a debate topic on this...

Come to Canada; we make fun of the French all the time. One, they lost the war and they still insist on speaking the language (that's why the main language is English here, because the French lost).
"And the French surrendered... AGAIN."

Yes, the Chinese Head Tax... I know all about how the Chinese and Japanese even were discriminated upon immigration. Everyone was, just some more than others.

I've heard a lot of people say that German is an ugly language. It's probably because the sounds are rather sharp and guttural (is that the word?).
To me, Chinese sounds a little choppy, and I prefer flowy kind of languages. Again, I'm not trying to discriminate, just stating my opinion.
Oh, and for the record, even though English is the only language I speak, I still think it sounds pretty ugly compared to some other languages

Most Cypriots have this idea that Greece cares about them. Greece couldn't care less.

I like Greek, it comes easy off the tongue.

If you want a language where you couldnt discern where words end and the next word begins, go for tamil or hindi. Seriously.

Actually, speaking backwards sounds better than normal English.

I've always favored pig Latin. I spent five days when I was in kindergarten refusing to speak plain English. Instead, I told my mother that her complaints were "tupid-say".

Yeah well i take chinese and i hate chinese.

Studying it for nine friggin years and still failing my close passages just plain sucks.

NINE YEARS?! Holy !

I hear it all the time. But have to say that some german songs sound quite nice (The ones that are sung by girls anyway. The guys just sound kinda growley).

Portuguese is my first language but I much prefer English. A whole lot easier to speek and I have no accent. However I have developed and American accent to my Portuguese

Portuguese!! That's cool.

Not really. It's exotic like Greek nor is it useful like Spanish.

True...

But it's better then nothing.

Also true...

I've always wanted to learn Spanish and Greek.
Back in my f***ing weeaboo days I wanted to learn Japanese.
I want to shoot myself for being a weeaboo.

Funnily enough, you get quite a good choice of langauges here. From year 4 to year 10 you learn english, from year 7 to year 9 yo learn french, then you get a choice of two languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish) to learn in years 11 and 12.

I wanted to pick Turkish and Russian or German, but there wasn't enough demand for them in my school so I chose turkish and spanish instead.

They only offer French here. It's pathetic.
They offered Spanish one year, but I already had my courses chose by that time.

Wooh ditto!

Thank God PSLE is over meh.

I fail my cloze passages too.4 years and counting...

No clue what you guys are talking about, but I'm doing well in Chinese, even though I hate hate hate hate the teacher.

I take spanish.

It's a fun language, because it's easy to speak. it sounds like its spelled.

Ok put it simply. Im chinese. I grow up in a chinese speaking family. Chinese is my second language. I converse with my grandparents in chinese. Ive been taking chinese since i entered school, which would be 9 years of formal education.

Now you know those passages where there are blanks to fill in the correct words with? With the correct tense and stuff? Well my chinese test makes it even easier by making it multiple choice. Meaning for every blank you have 4 options to choose from. Sounds good?

Well i've been averaging a 2 or 3 out of 10 for those passages.

That sucks. Majorly. Trust me.

Surprisingly though i got an A for my PSLE chinese . HAX!

I'm taking Latin and have since I was 9. It's okay at first but once you've mastered the basics and go on it's mostly stupid. I mean, how many declentions does a noun really need? And when did anyone ever say "he was about to be being heard"?

I want to learn French and Russian.

~Jadis

They say if you can learn Latin you can learn French, Spanish, Italian, those ones without a problem.

I want to learn Latin >:C

My friend gave me a long lecture and teased me mercilessly just b/c I said I wanted to learn Latin.

It really does make learning Romance Languages easier. It's just very stupid after a while.

~Jadis

Um, I'm learning japanese so I sorta like it. I like the sound of the french launguage, but I sorta dislike german. @_@ it makes me laugh everytime someone speaks in it. And let's not forget angry german kid, which would make me laugh more.(I know, he was just acting, but it's still pretty funneeh)
Hmm...I like the sound of latin singing, and Blue Bird is the only chinese song I really like.

@_@ my openions.

Cogito ergo sum.

AHA I CAN SPEEK LATINZ!

Brava. Now do this one.

Just to show you what I have to translate...


This is last week's paragraph.

Hic alius magnus timor (O fabula misera!) animos caecos nostros terret. Laocoon, sacerdos Neptuni fortuna factus, acrem taurum as aram in litore mactabat. Tum gemeni serpentes potentes, mare prementes, ab insula ad litora currunt. Iamque agros tenebant et, oculis igne ardentibus, ora linguis sibilis lambebant.
Nos omnes fugimus; ille via certa Laocoonta filiosque eius petunt. Primum parva corpora duorum puerorum capiunt et lacerant necantque devorantque. Tum patrem fortem, ad filios miseros currentam, rapiunt et potest, et ipse, ut tarus saucius ad aram, clamores horrendos ad caelem tollit. Eodem tempore serpentis fugiunt, petuntque perfugium in arce Minervae acris.
Quod Laocoon in equum Minervae hastam iecerat, nos putavimus eum erravisse et poenas dedisse; veritatem acerbam nescivimus. Portas paterfacimus et admittimus istum equum in urbem; atque pueri puellaque - O patria, O di magni, O Troia! - eum tangere gaudent. Et quoque gaudemus nos miseri, quibus ille dies fuit ultimus ac quibus munquam erit ullum solacium.

Good luck.

~Jadis

I think I got lost around the "hic alius"...

poof I wish I had a second language to throw around :C
I hated taking French... hate hate hated it.