Mrebo said:
Which languages do you know now and how well?
I primarily feel comfortable saying I know ASL. Beyond that I know how to read a lot the languages listed. As in sound out what the sounds are.
Though Kanji and subsequently Chinese is most difficult to read as there's lots of 'em. Also there's multiple readings for each. It's also deceptive for Japanese to list one of the readings as the "chinese reading" when Japanese isn't a language where you have to worry about tones. So even if that's true for some of the characters you still got to remember the tone for each in Chinese. I think it's better to just think of that reading as another Japanese reading. Helps keep things sorted in my head anyway. I also don't give a damn about trying to remember which reading is the "onyomi" or the "kunyomi" or which one means "chinese reading". Too much crap to worry about in my opinion. I just do my best to try to remember the sounds in relation to that specific Kanji.
As for ability. Well here's a quick list.
ASL - My second language
Spanish - Italian - French - Portuguese - Kind of vary how much I understand from each. I'm at the point where I understand more than I can speak. I just need to put in more effort until I feel confident enough to say I know these languages.
Japanese - I know a fair amount of Japanese. Though my vocab is small. I can read Katakana and Hiragana. Still working on Kanji but I can recognize over 100. I stopped counting as it made it easier to just not worry about the number of Kanji I know.
Korean - I can read all of it already but my vocab is very small. I know some basics. But I can't easily type it I have my computer's IME set up for Korean already, I just need to practice it. Just FYI romanizations of Korean words are a real hindrance. If you're thinking of learning Korean learn how to read it first. Romanizations will hold you back.
Hebrew - I can read it but with difficulty. My vocab is pretty small. Most of what I know are the blessings and some conversational stuff.
Russian - I can read it mostly. Vocab small.
Chinese - Barely read it. Small Vocab.
Beyond this it's either really basic stuff or I haven't put enough effort into it to know more yet.
How are you going about learning them?I wish I could say that I had some kind of grand master plan. I tried to make plan after plan after plan to learn all of them. They all got burned for one reason or another. Basically I change what I'm going to do based on the week. I either watch language vids on YT(and other sites), read books, write stuff, think about how to describe stuff in other languages every day. I also watch entertainment in other languages. Such as City Hunter which is a Korean Drama. The amount I do each day and if I watch some stuff varies depending on the day.
