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Heh. I have a friend who swears in Japanese a lot... but she can swear VERY fluently in English, with (I think) little tidbits of German, French, and some other random languages, too, because both of her parents are multilingual....
Wow, ppc and Aurora are of Chinese descent, too? Huh. My mother speaks STANDARD standard Mandarin (i.e., Shian-ish dialect), and my father's family speaks the Wuhan subdialect... which means whenever I visit them, they sound to me like they're speaking Chinese in (bizarrely) a very thick Irish brogue with a few other odd things thrown in (e.g., instead of "du shu" for read books/study, they say something that sounds just like "dao shuo," with lingual tones that make it sound vaguely like they're saying the phrase "topple speak") and are impossible to understand T.T... well, no, not impossible. I understand about 10%, compared to my usual 80%, but oh well. But it's irritating my mother slightly now, that, because half of my Asian friends at school are Taiwanese, I'm starting to pick up their dialect... and she says it sounds like I'm saying "scold" or "horse" every time I say "Ma" for mother ^.^
I wanted to take Japanese, too, but my parents say it's useless... although I get the distinct impression that that opinion is somewhat influenced by the typical "us vs. the Japanese" attitude many Chinese, Taiwanese, and Koreans I know seem to have.
Although, something odd... has anyone else noticed that most of the Asian countries that have been politically powerful at some point or another have a big, blood-of-my-children-on-the-threshold-type quarrel with almost all of the others?
I am Lionfish. HEAR ME ROA-- ....um, bubble. Blub, blub. *sweatdrop*
If you can't spell my name, go ahead and call me semi or S-chan. I don't mind, really.
Wow, ppc and Aurora are of Chinese descent, too? Huh. My mother speaks STANDARD standard Mandarin (i.e., Shian-ish dialect), and my father's family speaks the Wuhan subdialect... which means whenever I visit them, they sound to me like they're speaking Chinese in (bizarrely) a very thick Irish brogue with a few other odd things thrown in (e.g., instead of "du shu" for read books/study, they say something that sounds just like "dao shuo," with lingual tones that make it sound vaguely like they're saying the phrase "topple speak") and are impossible to understand T.T... well, no, not impossible. I understand about 10%, compared to my usual 80%, but oh well. But it's irritating my mother slightly now, that, because half of my Asian friends at school are Taiwanese, I'm starting to pick up their dialect... and she says it sounds like I'm saying "scold" or "horse" every time I say "Ma" for mother ^.^
I wanted to take Japanese, too, but my parents say it's useless... although I get the distinct impression that that opinion is somewhat influenced by the typical "us vs. the Japanese" attitude many Chinese, Taiwanese, and Koreans I know seem to have.
Although, something odd... has anyone else noticed that most of the Asian countries that have been politically powerful at some point or another have a big, blood-of-my-children-on-the-threshold-type quarrel with almost all of the others?
I am Lionfish. HEAR ME ROA-- ....um, bubble. Blub, blub. *sweatdrop*
If you can't spell my name, go ahead and call me semi or S-chan. I don't mind, really.
I actually HATE the play, but for some stupid reason I was assigned to be Juliet. I didn't forget my lines! 
Prefiero hablar en espanol mas que todas las linguas.
No, just joking.
Heh. I'm always POed at her. Who wouldn't be? We learn crap! And by crap I mean pointless, some being false. "Owls don't eat mice because owls come out in the night and mice in the day," is only one of them. God, just about all owls eat are mice.
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