She did good, even with laughing. Japanese is way easier than people think. I took it for 3 years & no matter what other language I take after I still love it. Nihongo ga totemo suki desu!
I'm on my fourth language, well was cause I moved out of the class involuntarily, but I find it easy to learn... you guys think military will like this? I'm going Marine soon
And by the way, I'm not saying that Emma is not a smart girl, but, there is much expectation about he can speaks one language or another... saying "konnichiwa", "hola amigos" or "Nín hǎo" does not mean that someone can speak Japanese, Spanish or Chinese (Emma can speak with some ease some languages, I know) . A language is more than just few words, and no one can give a good opinion without a minimal knowledge, that would be foolish.
I have a Level 4 Japanese according to the official profidiency test (besides I know Italian, German, and my native language is Spanish) and I know enough Chinese to tell you that CHINESE IS FAR EASIER THAN JAPANESE (I mean learning the language, learning just few words is not learning a language). That's it, there is no doubt. The main reason is grammar: Chinese just don't have grammar. Pronuntiation seems difficult, but you can learn it in just one day (with a minimal skill, of course).
@RD400D78 BEEP-BEEP! Thanks for the correction ;). Actually I had reviewed the word "proficiency" before writing, but I made the mistake anyway :$, sorry. When I speak Spanish I'm more original, but in English I don't feel confident enough to do so.
@RD400D78 Ironically enough Kban is still better at English than many native speakers, if YouTube comments are any indication. Spelling mistakes are excusable.
As a speaker of Japanese (L2 speaker, my L1 being English) with some very vague familiarity with Chinese (I have a few Chinese friends and some nonnatives who learned to speak it), my current opinion is that Japanese is more difficult than Chinese in grammar but Chinese writing is more difficult than JP. But don't take my word for it.
@Kban Chinese doesn't have grammar... what a load of bull. Chinese is a language family with separate branches according to location. What is known as Chinese now is the Mandarin dialect. effectively, Chinese is more difficult since there are separate dialects for separate regions. Unless you spent most of your life speaking Chinese or learning it, you would never notice the grammar behind it.
@3darkn1t You're right, there are many Chinese dialects, but when we speak about Chinese we mean MANDARIN Chinese. Just one dialect. In Japanese there are many dialects too (I know at least 15 of them), but when we "say" Japanese we talk about kyoutsuugo (spoken in Tokyo region). I've said Chinese doesn't have grammar. Of course it has, but it is so simple compared with others such as romance languages or Japanese. I'm afraid your argument is not convincing enough.
I'm sure than more than a half of people who are giving their opinion about what language is more difficult don't have a clue about their grammar, vocabulary...
@throathammer1 Nope it doesn't, not in her case, she learns one sentence and can't even say it decently? maybe on the plane there she could practice it for a few minutes?
@hubomba Yes, she should have, but こんにちは works too, because it's time-indifferent. Seeing as she was reading off of a card, she probably didn't even know what she was saying.
@PeircedinBlood. hmm.. Going to have to say both? I learned Korean and some words were easy and some weren't. Sooo, I guess Easy? Since more words are easier for me in Japanese. PS Im fluent in English, Spanish, French, Korean, and learning Japanese
@TheFlower949 Woa, thats amazing. Im only fluent in English and In Spanish but Im learning French at school right now. Let me tell you that French is HARD for me. Have any tips on how I can learn French easier??
@PeircedinBlood Hmm, It depends - French, like Spanish, is loosely based on Latin - so a lot of the words will sound vaguely familiar. The difference is that French has a very concrete grammatical structure (unlike English.)
If you can get your mind wrapped around the grammar, the vocabulary will be the easy part.
@PeircedinBlood Learning a new language the first time could be the most difficult simply because the experience is so unusual... then again Japanese uses an entirely different set of characters, so there would still be new challenges (I'm assuming you've only used roman characters). Anyway learning a language isn't really easy or hard, it is just like learning anything else. You will only speak as well as the effort you put into the language. Good luck!
@lolokooza people have different opinions, k. frankly I was just saying what's on my mind. if you disagree then okay fine, keep it to yourself. plus I'm learning japanese AND chinese and to me, chinese is more difficult, k. chill, that was just what I thought. /shrug. and no, I wasn't trying to offend anyone. ==
Look guys, I have a friend who knows 8 different languages and he even tried making his own language. And he went for exams and got straight As for all 8 languages. On the other hand, I took Français and struggled to get pass the beginner's level. Some people find it easy, some people don't.
I find my native language hard lol. I can never get A on Chinese. Only a few people gets A in Chinese. Fucking Chinese have to be my native language OH GOD!
@yukoko94 i'm like that i took franch 4 gsce and managed to get a c but i could hardly say more than 'hello my name is helen i'm an english' but my one of my friends took Franch, German and Russion and another took franch but can understand japanises, sweedish and some itailan. I have italian and sweedish cousins but i have no idea what they say!
@redkitty123 Haha, I only know "Je m'appale (Name), je suis singaporean". Somewhere there and that's about it XD. I pick out single words that I understand in a french sentence and try to guess and figure out the rest of it.
@81MidNighT181 Japanese, English, Mandarin, French, German, Malay and another two that I can't recall. Haven't been in contact with him for quite awhile now.
@scarredxangel I personally think it's based on your native language, not just the difficulty for the person themself. A native language has the chance of making learning a specific language harder. Such as from English to Japanese. Japanese has very different grammatical rules from English making it harder for an English native to learn Japanese than a Korean native would have.
Heck yeah that's true! I'm Chinese and I can learn Japanese a heck faster than most people. I know most of the Kanji already. Trolollololololl I have trouble learning Korean though. It looks messed up to me lol. English was easy for me to learn, although at first I had trouble pronouncing it. Currently learning French, French is a bit hard for me.
@cccEngineer I'm from Finland, shut up bastard, i'm learning English, and you're just a stupid human, and I am free to write what I want, do not bother me poika narttu!!!!
@SuperFinalfighter If you're learning English then you're learning it wrong...You're destroying the language that use and I can't take offense to that? Give me a break! Isn't that cute to curse in another language... Just keep to yourself and learn the correct grammar for English. I'm glad you're trying but whoever taught you spelling is bad and you need a better teacher.
@SuperFinalfighter For what reason is it the universal language? Your sentence made absolutely no sense. Sorry, but it is true and it's also a bit confusing since you didn't use punctuation. Also we say, "I just started my first semester of college." Not, "I am in first semester of college."
If you're going to say, "I'm in first semester of college" you need to add the article "the" to the sentence. It should be, "I'm in the first semester of college." For future reference, you'll use "the" quite often especially when talking about objects i.e. "the stove" "the book" "the computer" "the internet" "the fridge" "the pencil" "the stereo", etc.
THe most difficult language to learn is Vietnamese, because its not what the word is its how you pronouncing and put emphasise on certain syllables which makes it so hard to learn. One word in Vietnamese could mean 3 completely different things dependant on how you pronounce the word. - After Vietnamese, it's English :D xx
I've seen her say things in 3 asian languages, and she either didn't say it with much confidence (like when she spoke chinese), she didn't have a very good accent (like here), or she mispronounced it to the point where it was almost impossible to comprehend (like when she said "hello" in Korean). I think she needs to take it upon herself to practice a little more.
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@DetectiveConan150 She said, "Konnichiwa Nihon no tomodachi." That means "Hello my Japanese friends."
I would know, because I'm Japanese. But she wasn't that great, I have to admit... I could barely comprehend. But whatever; she's better at speaking Japanese than Chinese.
Japanese is hard for me because I speak Chinese, and so everytime I see Kanji, I have to keep myself from saying the Chinese - even if alot of the Kanji are traditional carachters....
Japanese language is trally hard to learn, not because its hard to pronounce but because tou have three alphabets and many words that means the same thing
@angelmind9494 Do you really think that or did you read it on a website somewhere? I learned hiragana in about three weeks and Japanese has got a really easy sentence structure. It's also easy to expand your vocabulary in japanese because many words means the same. You understand from the context what word people mean.
@BouvierLovesDesrosie I know Japanese, I Learned both katakana and hiragana in two weeks, those are not hard to learn, the hard part is all the kanji. I know a lot of them and there are so many of them, appoximately
50 000! and when i said that many words mean the same thing, it includes the letters...ex: yuki: snow yuuki: courage,bravery. when you read it, ok, you got it, but when you hear it, it's a bit more difficult and of course you need to go with the context.
@angelmind9494 Er...The On is the way you say it in Chinese, and the Kun is the way you say it in Japanese, right? (PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just trying to understand.)
When do you actually use the On reading when you're reading Japanese? Or do you? Is there a purpose for learning the On reading if it's a Chinese word and not a Japanese word? I'm confused. ><;
@JaniesBullet As far as I've noticed after three-four years of studying Japanese, On-reading is usually used in compound words or nouns. Kun-reading is more used for verbs and adjectives. But until you see the same things over and over again and get used to where what sounds like what, it can sometimes be quite difficult to determine what a kanji sounds like in a specific syntax.
But to answer your question, yes, you use on-reading a lot :)
@myfunkychannel Chinese?! Chinese isn't a language. Either Mandarin, Cantonese or the other indigenous languages are spoken in China. Stupid Americans...
Now English is a genuinely hard language to learn for most people, because it's got vocabulary from all over the place, a lot of inconsistencies in grammar, spelling and pronunciation, and enormous variety between dialects (stemming from it being so widely spoken).
@myfunkychannel well if you mean speaking, then no. But writing it is especially hard. With the 2 different alphabets and the kanji, which is quite extensive in itself.
@jenshu7 japanese actually uses lots of chinese characters. so if you learn chinese characters (writting) it makes life easier for japanese. but the thing thats hard for chinese is that there is simplified (mainland china, singapore) and traditiional (hong kong, taiwan)
@myfunkychannel Kanji is slightly different from any existing chinese writing. So its 50% pointless to learn chinese writing first instead of learnign kanji directly. Are you trying to say its an easy language to write? Are you native mandarin/"chinese" speaker, or a native japanese speaker? You have to admit. Japanese has 3 different categories to learn: 2 alphabets and modified chinese, which has no alphabet, making it harder. And on top of that, katakana and hiragana aren't really alphabets
@myfunkychannel each character is a combination of a consonant and a vowel, which increases the number of characters you have to learn in the first place. The average child in Japan is no closer to being able to read a full page of Japanese at 10 than he/she is at 5, which is an anomaly not perceived in any other known country. How is that, in any way easy? Unless you're talking about pronunciation, at least in that area, you have China beat.
@jenshu7 Why would a 10 year old Japanese kid be trying to read a normal Japanese book? Obviously they are going to be reading something that is on their level which would involve lower vocabulary and kanji levels.
@treskro3 Children can read quite well by 5th grade. Except in Japan of course. Which is no fault of the children. I grow tired of re-explaining that which I have already covered.
@jenshu7 What does reading "well" mean? 5th graders in the US can probably read something like Harry Potter, but I doubt that they will understand even a sentence of Ulysses. It's easy enough to make gross generalizations if you're working with skewed baselines.
@treskro3 Yes but the point is that children in Japan would not be able to read a Japanese translation of Harry Potter at that age because of the kanji that would be involved. Kanji slows down the full literacy process. Learning rate would obviously slow, as if someone were being taught to understand English, French, and Mandarin writing all at once!
@jenshu7 That is probably true. However, you can't be certain that a 10 year old English kid will understand all of Harry Potter either. That's not really the point anyway. I just wanted to bring up the point about a Japanese kid being no closer to being able to read a full page of text at 5 than at 10. Does this mean that there is zero progression during these years?
@myfunkychannel actually u can lear the kanji but te pronunciation is not always the same, kanjis can have from 2 to 12 pronunciations depending on the context + some meanings change so learning chinese doesn't make japanese easy.
That was really good actually
MrL0u1s4P1zz4 4 days ago
man i want to fuck her so bad
hugojamesharmony 1 week ago
yaay love japanese!!
i know a bit of japanese from the animes xD
rachel666 2 weeks ago
It's nice to see someone as young as her so modestly elegant
MedusasLover168 1 month ago
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MedusasLover168 1 month ago
She did good, even with laughing. Japanese is way easier than people think. I took it for 3 years & no matter what other language I take after I still love it. Nihongo ga totemo suki desu!
WinxMusaitsumademo 1 month ago 10
@WinxMusaitsumademo i take japanese too! its hard for me though! maybe cos my still struggling with my own uni studies ):
MrLexify 1 month ago
@MrLexify Same here. My college schedule is making it difficult to continue Japanese courses. How are you learning it?
brotherbear92 1 month ago
@brotherbear92 im attending a japanese school in my country. its been 2 years and still not that proficient yet! though i just cleared N4 ;D
MrLexify 2 weeks ago
@WinxMusaitsumademo I've only been studying for 10 months and its already my favorite language!!! also could you give me some tips on grammar? lol xD
XOcutie901 2 days ago
Oh, so she speaks Japanese but not Chinese. IIINNNNSSSUUULLLLLTT! :D
queenofslurpees37 1 month ago
I'm a huge anime freak, and hearing my av movie star speak Japanese makes me flip. ;D
maddiedancestar3 2 months ago
I just love her accent. She sounds so cute.
ComplexPattern300 2 months ago
She said: FUS RO DAH!!!!!!!!
BlueJester92 3 months ago
I'm on my fourth language, well was cause I moved out of the class involuntarily, but I find it easy to learn... you guys think military will like this? I'm going Marine soon
green2882 3 months ago
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"how...many... there are of you" XD
kungfuasgaeilge 3 months ago
lol i love how people fight over things on the internet hahah WHAT FUN!!!
SailorZakuroWTF 3 months ago
And by the way, I'm not saying that Emma is not a smart girl, but, there is much expectation about he can speaks one language or another... saying "konnichiwa", "hola amigos" or "Nín hǎo" does not mean that someone can speak Japanese, Spanish or Chinese (Emma can speak with some ease some languages, I know) . A language is more than just few words, and no one can give a good opinion without a minimal knowledge, that would be foolish.
Kban 3 months ago
I have a Level 4 Japanese according to the official profidiency test (besides I know Italian, German, and my native language is Spanish) and I know enough Chinese to tell you that CHINESE IS FAR EASIER THAN JAPANESE (I mean learning the language, learning just few words is not learning a language). That's it, there is no doubt. The main reason is grammar: Chinese just don't have grammar. Pronuntiation seems difficult, but you can learn it in just one day (with a minimal skill, of course).
Kban 3 months ago
@Kban Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but I consider Japanese easier than Chinese, even though you think the opposite.
bizaroid 3 months ago
@Kban proficiency* pronunciation*. your english is good but you speak like a robot.
RD400D78 3 months ago
@RD400D78 BEEP-BEEP! Thanks for the correction ;). Actually I had reviewed the word "proficiency" before writing, but I made the mistake anyway :$, sorry. When I speak Spanish I'm more original, but in English I don't feel confident enough to do so.
Kban 3 months ago
@RD400D78 Ironically enough Kban is still better at English than many native speakers, if YouTube comments are any indication. Spelling mistakes are excusable.
As a speaker of Japanese (L2 speaker, my L1 being English) with some very vague familiarity with Chinese (I have a few Chinese friends and some nonnatives who learned to speak it), my current opinion is that Japanese is more difficult than Chinese in grammar but Chinese writing is more difficult than JP. But don't take my word for it.
Saavykaas 3 months ago
@Kban Chinese doesn't have grammar... what a load of bull. Chinese is a language family with separate branches according to location. What is known as Chinese now is the Mandarin dialect. effectively, Chinese is more difficult since there are separate dialects for separate regions. Unless you spent most of your life speaking Chinese or learning it, you would never notice the grammar behind it.
3darkn1t 3 months ago
@3darkn1t You're right, there are many Chinese dialects, but when we speak about Chinese we mean MANDARIN Chinese. Just one dialect. In Japanese there are many dialects too (I know at least 15 of them), but when we "say" Japanese we talk about kyoutsuugo (spoken in Tokyo region). I've said Chinese doesn't have grammar. Of course it has, but it is so simple compared with others such as romance languages or Japanese. I'm afraid your argument is not convincing enough.
Kban 3 months ago
I'm sure than more than a half of people who are giving their opinion about what language is more difficult don't have a clue about their grammar, vocabulary...
Kban 3 months ago
she said a couple of words in japanese, I don't think that counts
Fergusforslipknot 4 months ago
I'm calling Princess Lea on that outfit. xD
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the thing about emma is that she speaks nothing in more than 5 languages.
DPBurn121 5 months ago
I LOVE Japanese, and this is cool. Good try, Emma.
KittenCat2223 5 months ago
why does she try to speak so many languages... she's terrible at all of them.
hejie23 5 months ago
@hejie23 it shows respect to at least attempt the language... its a 'foreign' concept to some
throathammer1 4 months ago
@throathammer1 Nope it doesn't, not in her case, she learns one sentence and can't even say it decently? maybe on the plane there she could practice it for a few minutes?
hejie23 4 months ago
She should have said こんばんは no? Looks like it is night time hour there.
hubomba 5 months ago in playlist EMMA WATSON 3
@hubomba Yes, she should have, but こんにちは works too, because it's time-indifferent. Seeing as she was reading off of a card, she probably didn't even know what she was saying.
KittenCat2223 5 months ago 3
Her Japanese was better than her Korean and Chinese.
chocoboblue99 5 months ago
@PeircedinBlood. hmm.. Going to have to say both? I learned Korean and some words were easy and some weren't. Sooo, I guess Easy? Since more words are easier for me in Japanese. PS Im fluent in English, Spanish, French, Korean, and learning Japanese
TheFlower949 5 months ago
@TheFlower949 Woa, thats amazing. Im only fluent in English and In Spanish but Im learning French at school right now. Let me tell you that French is HARD for me. Have any tips on how I can learn French easier??
PeircedinBlood 5 months ago
@PeircedinBlood Hmm, It depends - French, like Spanish, is loosely based on Latin - so a lot of the words will sound vaguely familiar. The difference is that French has a very concrete grammatical structure (unlike English.)
If you can get your mind wrapped around the grammar, the vocabulary will be the easy part.
TheFlower949 5 months ago
Im fluent in Spanish, would that make my learning Japanese easier or harder?
PeircedinBlood 5 months ago
@PeircedinBlood Learning a new language the first time could be the most difficult simply because the experience is so unusual... then again Japanese uses an entirely different set of characters, so there would still be new challenges (I'm assuming you've only used roman characters). Anyway learning a language isn't really easy or hard, it is just like learning anything else. You will only speak as well as the effort you put into the language. Good luck!
FootDanielLight 5 months ago
lol continue Press 9. :P
shippyssdgfhh 6 months ago
Aww, she's so moe-moe it hurts. No wonder they love her.
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Overdrivepictures 6 months ago 212
@Overdrivepictures a lot easier...?not really
Shirayuki619xYuuki 4 months ago
@Shirayuki619xYuuki Speaking is. Imo
djmaxxl 4 months ago
@Overdrivepictures
I'm Japanese and I havn't learnt Chinese ever in my life before, but I doubt that Japanese is easier.
I think you meant easier as in the pronounciation, cuz its much easier to pronounce in Japanese than in Chinese.
You might just be joking but be careful with your words.
lolokooza 4 months ago 2
@lolokooza people have different opinions, k. frankly I was just saying what's on my mind. if you disagree then okay fine, keep it to yourself. plus I'm learning japanese AND chinese and to me, chinese is more difficult, k. chill, that was just what I thought. /shrug. and no, I wasn't trying to offend anyone. ==
Overdrivepictures 4 months ago
@Overdrivepictures Chinese is easier -_-
Danaa1608 2 weeks ago
@Overdrivepictures Japanese aint easier than Chinese believe me
LyPhan00 1 week ago
Give me a break! "SPEAKING JAPANESE." :P :P
arbide3 6 months ago
how many languages can the cast of harry potter speak?
Revix77 6 months ago
They should all just speak in parseltounge.
SummerZooey 6 months ago 6
dats one ugly hoe
bethoughless 6 months ago
Look guys, I have a friend who knows 8 different languages and he even tried making his own language. And he went for exams and got straight As for all 8 languages. On the other hand, I took Français and struggled to get pass the beginner's level. Some people find it easy, some people don't.
yukoko94 6 months ago 330
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I find my native language hard lol. I can never get A on Chinese. Only a few people gets A in Chinese. Fucking Chinese have to be my native language OH GOD!
Samhiuys 6 months ago
@Samhiuys I NEVER get an A for my Chinese too, I got only a pass in my major exam LOL
yukoko94 6 months ago
@yukoko94 i'm like that i took franch 4 gsce and managed to get a c but i could hardly say more than 'hello my name is helen i'm an english' but my one of my friends took Franch, German and Russion and another took franch but can understand japanises, sweedish and some itailan. I have italian and sweedish cousins but i have no idea what they say!
redkitty123 4 months ago
@redkitty123 Haha, I only know "Je m'appale (Name), je suis singaporean". Somewhere there and that's about it XD. I pick out single words that I understand in a french sentence and try to guess and figure out the rest of it.
yukoko94 4 months ago
@yukoko94 Exactly! I've been learning (or trying to) French since I was in my 5th year at school, and I still can;t remember more than the basics.
DeadlyAntenna 4 months ago
@yukoko94 Bonjour! Je m'appelle Hannah, comment tu t'appelles? Lol im in top set for french and im in yr eight...I'm stil shit at it though. :)
badwolf2901 3 months ago
@badwolf2901 Bonjour! Je m'appelle Garfield! Je suis Singapourien, tu? Comment vous êtes? hahaha I hope I got that right! D:
yukoko94 3 months ago
@yukoko94 Votre nom est Garfield? Quel nom étrange! :) Je suis britannique, et je suis très bien que vous, et vous?
I think I may have said "I am fine as you, and you" by accident but oh well :) Hehe I'm 12 so I think I have a bit of an allowance for cock ups! :)
badwolf2901 3 months ago
@badwolf2901 I'm 17 and I'm in no position for cock ups. BUT WHATEVA MANG~
yukoko94 3 months ago
@yukoko94 lol
badwolf2901 3 months ago
@yukoko94 man..im jealous of your friend...what are the languages??
i speak only 5 different languages...
81MidNighT181 1 week ago
@81MidNighT181 Japanese, English, Mandarin, French, German, Malay and another two that I can't recall. Haven't been in contact with him for quite awhile now.
yukoko94 1 week ago
@yukoko94 Cool!
81MidNighT181 1 week ago
I love that most of the comments are "The hardest language is......"
The hardest language depends on you, some one could learn Japanese and be like "That was so hard" (Like me)
Whereas someone else could learn and be like "So easy"
Well done Emma, you didn't do to badly.
scarredxangel 7 months ago
@scarredxangel I personally think it's based on your native language, not just the difficulty for the person themself. A native language has the chance of making learning a specific language harder. Such as from English to Japanese. Japanese has very different grammatical rules from English making it harder for an English native to learn Japanese than a Korean native would have.
cccEngineer 7 months ago 4
@cccEngineer
Heck yeah that's true! I'm Chinese and I can learn Japanese a heck faster than most people. I know most of the Kanji already. Trolollololololl I have trouble learning Korean though. It looks messed up to me lol. English was easy for me to learn, although at first I had trouble pronouncing it. Currently learning French, French is a bit hard for me.
Samhiuys 6 months ago
@SuperFinalfighter its JapAnese. You messed it up twice -_-
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SuperFinalfighter 7 months ago
@SuperFinalfighter Why the fuck can't you spell or use decent grammar?
cccEngineer 7 months ago
@cccEngineer I'm from Finland, shut up bastard, i'm learning English, and you're just a stupid human, and I am free to write what I want, do not bother me poika narttu!!!!
SuperFinalfighter 7 months ago
@SuperFinalfighter If you're learning English then you're learning it wrong...You're destroying the language that use and I can't take offense to that? Give me a break! Isn't that cute to curse in another language... Just keep to yourself and learn the correct grammar for English. I'm glad you're trying but whoever taught you spelling is bad and you need a better teacher.
cccEngineer 7 months ago
@cccEngineer lol relax dude, the English language is very easy for me for that reason is universal language,
I am in first semester of college, just wait...
SuperFinalfighter 7 months ago
@SuperFinalfighter For what reason is it the universal language? Your sentence made absolutely no sense. Sorry, but it is true and it's also a bit confusing since you didn't use punctuation. Also we say, "I just started my first semester of college." Not, "I am in first semester of college."
iamsamshope 6 months ago
If you're going to say, "I'm in first semester of college" you need to add the article "the" to the sentence. It should be, "I'm in the first semester of college." For future reference, you'll use "the" quite often especially when talking about objects i.e. "the stove" "the book" "the computer" "the internet" "the fridge" "the pencil" "the stereo", etc.
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liyosan 7 months ago
@liyosan Rosetta Stone is a kook. What a waste of money if anyone spends any on that garbage...
cccEngineer 7 months ago
@cccEngineer It was a joke.
liyosan 6 months ago
I like speaking in Japanese. It is fun. Umm but not to write and read
wanpijid 7 months ago
@wanpijid I find it much more fun to write and read than to speak! I like writing the characters.
xXRubella666Xx 5 months ago
THe most difficult language to learn is Vietnamese, because its not what the word is its how you pronouncing and put emphasise on certain syllables which makes it so hard to learn. One word in Vietnamese could mean 3 completely different things dependant on how you pronounce the word. - After Vietnamese, it's English :D xx
stacey2evaa 7 months ago
@stacey2evaa First of all and believe me when i say this is Greek.
Spirosw96 7 months ago
@stacey2evaa Try Chinese. Theres over 300 different characters to recognize before you can read a simple chinese newspaper.
TheEvilUchihaItachi 7 months ago
She is so adorable :)
PeircedinBlood 7 months ago
i love british accent "i just want to say thank you sooi much" " and thank you fo such a WOOOm welcome"
i could live in london if it wasnt for the food/weather.
MIssTouver 7 months ago 2
This was good, but she can work on her accent :)
ElleGraceKelly 7 months ago
I've seen her say things in 3 asian languages, and she either didn't say it with much confidence (like when she spoke chinese), she didn't have a very good accent (like here), or she mispronounced it to the point where it was almost impossible to comprehend (like when she said "hello" in Korean). I think she needs to take it upon herself to practice a little more.
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miguelitanfuy 7 months ago
when she came i thought she was bald!
christianyonas 7 months ago
She didn't speak Japanese. She just said Konichiwa.
DetectiveConan150 7 months ago
@DetectiveConan150 She said, "Konnichiwa Nihon no tomodachi." That means "Hello my Japanese friends."
I would know, because I'm Japanese. But she wasn't that great, I have to admit... I could barely comprehend. But whatever; she's better at speaking Japanese than Chinese.
gojjkjkmtl1117 7 months ago 2
@gojjkjkmtl1117 Really? She didn't pronounce the "to" very well, I heard Mo in there somewhere.
shippyssdgfhh 6 months ago
@shippyssdgfhh
Do you mean in the "Tomodachi ?" Because there's a "mo" in there... lol
gojjkjkmtl1117 6 months ago
@gojjkjkmtl1117 Heheh, no. Before she said something like Nihon mora....then tomodachi.....listen to it at 0:05.
shippyssdgfhh 6 months ago
@shippyssdgfhh Ohh, i heard it. Well she usually is horrible with other languages so im gonna give credit to her on this one ( :
gojjkjkmtl1117 6 months ago
@gojjkjkmtl1117 Hahhaha!! Yeah I listened to the other languages as well...she needs practice. hehehe! :)
shippyssdgfhh 6 months ago
@DetectiveConan150 Well, konnichiwa does mean hello in japanese ._.
NinjaNaruto81 7 months ago
awwww I LOVE JAPANESE
MarionCullen13 8 months ago
@older1991
AMERICANS ARE NOT STUPID!
MsBbycakes02 8 months ago
konnitchiwa at night??
it should be "konbanwa"kekek
Moni3534 9 months ago
@Moni3534 Kon'nichiwa means hello... So she doesn't have to say good evening.
andrearuless 8 months ago
You know she can speak like 4 languages fluently and then another 2 semi fluently
FireAngel376 9 months ago
kawaii
aguabendita123 9 months ago
japanese ain't hard why can i speak japanese and i learned it only 1 day
aguabendita123 9 months ago
@aguabendita123 Oh, of course you can. But maybe learning to speak English first would be a better idea.
auraheartghost 9 months ago 3
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This is her speaking English. -_-
VictimOfBoredom 10 months ago
Her accent is awful, all I can understand is "konnichiha". :|
yujun 10 months ago 5
Japanese is not the easiest language to learn but its not particularly difficult like, for example, chinese or arabic.
MangoLuve 10 months ago
Dude, what CAN'T she do? :D
SincerlyMexx 10 months ago
@SincerlyMexx Speak a language other than English...
VictimOfBoredom 10 months ago
Japanese the easiest language to learn? Are you kidding? O_O For me it's damn hard
Myumeful 11 months ago
Japanese is one of the easiest languages to learn :)
sko12342 11 months ago 4
@sko12342 Haha! Yeah right!
NanaTheDwarf 11 months ago
@NanaTheDwarf It is. For me it was :I
sko12342 11 months ago
@sko12342 Oh, I thought you were joking, because japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn.
NanaTheDwarf 11 months ago
@NanaTheDwarf Have you tried to learn it? Then you´ll see that it´s actually not that hard -.-
sko12342 11 months ago
Japanese is hard for me because I speak Chinese, and so everytime I see Kanji, I have to keep myself from saying the Chinese - even if alot of the Kanji are traditional carachters....
SeraphimsDevil 1 year ago 31
@SeraphimsDevil: I know what you mean. The worse was I kept mis writing Chinese for Japanese when I was still in school. lol!
RisingSunRocks 1 year ago
@SeraphimsDevil ME TOO! I hate that shit
Yizn074 5 months ago
@older1991 mandarin chinese is a language. cantonese is a dialect. get your facts right before insulting others.
spreadingthebutter 1 year ago
Japanese language is trally hard to learn, not because its hard to pronounce but because tou have three alphabets and many words that means the same thing
angelmind9494 1 year ago
@angelmind9494 Do you really think that or did you read it on a website somewhere? I learned hiragana in about three weeks and Japanese has got a really easy sentence structure. It's also easy to expand your vocabulary in japanese because many words means the same. You understand from the context what word people mean.
BouvierLovesDesrosie 1 year ago
@BouvierLovesDesrosie I know Japanese, I Learned both katakana and hiragana in two weeks, those are not hard to learn, the hard part is all the kanji. I know a lot of them and there are so many of them, appoximately
50 000! and when i said that many words mean the same thing, it includes the letters...ex: yuki: snow yuuki: courage,bravery. when you read it, ok, you got it, but when you hear it, it's a bit more difficult and of course you need to go with the context.
It takes a lot of time.
angelmind9494 1 year ago
@angelmind9494 Er...The On is the way you say it in Chinese, and the Kun is the way you say it in Japanese, right? (PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just trying to understand.)
When do you actually use the On reading when you're reading Japanese? Or do you? Is there a purpose for learning the On reading if it's a Chinese word and not a Japanese word? I'm confused. ><;
JaniesBullet 1 year ago
@JaniesBullet As far as I've noticed after three-four years of studying Japanese, On-reading is usually used in compound words or nouns. Kun-reading is more used for verbs and adjectives. But until you see the same things over and over again and get used to where what sounds like what, it can sometimes be quite difficult to determine what a kanji sounds like in a specific syntax.
But to answer your question, yes, you use on-reading a lot :)
Davidkracht 1 year ago
that was good, espcially with her british accent.
she's adorable.
explodingmoons 1 year ago 152
she's damn funny and cute ^^
she was trying to speak Japanese even if it's a really difficult language
Go Emma
DanielRadcliffe56 2 years ago
@DanielRadcliffe56 japanese ain't hard buddy
myfunkychannel 1 year ago 113
@myfunkychannel lol i was told that it was one of the hardest languages to learn
Callope1126 1 year ago
@Callope1126 i picked up japanese in 6 months, chinese 4 years and still shit at it.
myfunkychannel 1 year ago
@myfunkychannel lol
Callope1126 1 year ago
@myfunkychannel lolll it's funny how people take longer to tkae up chinese because it's so damn difficult. ugh
laceylingerie 1 year ago
@myfunkychannel Chinese?! Chinese isn't a language. Either Mandarin, Cantonese or the other indigenous languages are spoken in China. Stupid Americans...
older1991 1 year ago
@older1991 stupid prick. i aint even american. and fyi chinese is a language depends on which chinese dialect you speak
myfunkychannel 1 year ago
@Callope1126
Only the Japanese and idiots think that.
WiggaMachiavelli 7 months ago
@WiggaMachiavelli lol my english teacher is dumb then lol
Callope1126 7 months ago
@Callope1126
Now English is a genuinely hard language to learn for most people, because it's got vocabulary from all over the place, a lot of inconsistencies in grammar, spelling and pronunciation, and enormous variety between dialects (stemming from it being so widely spoken).
But Russian and FInnish are harder still.
WiggaMachiavelli 7 months ago
@WiggaMachiavelli i know that lol
Callope1126 7 months ago
@WiggaMachiavelli Especially Finnish...I tried some self-studying,but I failed miserably :)
IrenaBriseisHelen 6 months ago
@myfunkychannel apparently English is
123123123cowmoo 1 year ago 4
@myfunkychannel it actually is for some people-the culture's hard to get and there's sooooooo many kanji characters *raises eyebrow*
imsoEMOtionalistic 11 months ago
@myfunkychannel well if you mean speaking, then no. But writing it is especially hard. With the 2 different alphabets and the kanji, which is quite extensive in itself.
jenshu7 10 months ago
@jenshu7 japanese actually uses lots of chinese characters. so if you learn chinese characters (writting) it makes life easier for japanese. but the thing thats hard for chinese is that there is simplified (mainland china, singapore) and traditiional (hong kong, taiwan)
myfunkychannel 8 months ago
@myfunkychannel Kanji is slightly different from any existing chinese writing. So its 50% pointless to learn chinese writing first instead of learnign kanji directly. Are you trying to say its an easy language to write? Are you native mandarin/"chinese" speaker, or a native japanese speaker? You have to admit. Japanese has 3 different categories to learn: 2 alphabets and modified chinese, which has no alphabet, making it harder. And on top of that, katakana and hiragana aren't really alphabets
jenshu7 8 months ago
@jenshu7 i notice it too, slight variation to chinese characters, but lots of similarities which made learning japanese quicker for me.
myfunkychannel 8 months ago
@myfunkychannel each character is a combination of a consonant and a vowel, which increases the number of characters you have to learn in the first place. The average child in Japan is no closer to being able to read a full page of Japanese at 10 than he/she is at 5, which is an anomaly not perceived in any other known country. How is that, in any way easy? Unless you're talking about pronunciation, at least in that area, you have China beat.
jenshu7 8 months ago
@jenshu7 Why would a 10 year old Japanese kid be trying to read a normal Japanese book? Obviously they are going to be reading something that is on their level which would involve lower vocabulary and kanji levels.
treskro3 8 months ago
@treskro3 Children can read quite well by 5th grade. Except in Japan of course. Which is no fault of the children. I grow tired of re-explaining that which I have already covered.
jenshu7 8 months ago
@jenshu7 What does reading "well" mean? 5th graders in the US can probably read something like Harry Potter, but I doubt that they will understand even a sentence of Ulysses. It's easy enough to make gross generalizations if you're working with skewed baselines.
treskro3 8 months ago
@treskro3 Yes but the point is that children in Japan would not be able to read a Japanese translation of Harry Potter at that age because of the kanji that would be involved. Kanji slows down the full literacy process. Learning rate would obviously slow, as if someone were being taught to understand English, French, and Mandarin writing all at once!
jenshu7 8 months ago
@jenshu7 That is probably true. However, you can't be certain that a 10 year old English kid will understand all of Harry Potter either. That's not really the point anyway. I just wanted to bring up the point about a Japanese kid being no closer to being able to read a full page of text at 5 than at 10. Does this mean that there is zero progression during these years?
treskro3 8 months ago
@myfunkychannel actually u can lear the kanji but te pronunciation is not always the same, kanjis can have from 2 to 12 pronunciations depending on the context + some meanings change so learning chinese doesn't make japanese easy.
misskawaiidesune 8 months ago
@misskawaiidesune was talking about writing. not talking. but that was just me, maybe different to everyone.
myfunkychannel 8 months ago
@myfunkychannel and Isaid tht some meaning change too if u just read me, so tht affects writing.Anyway I was just informing,
misskawaiidesune 7 months ago
@myfunkychannel It is if you're just learning it.
KorinaElmes 8 months ago
@myfunkychannel I would say the Kanji is pretty difficult if you're a foreigner.
ayesha36 7 months ago
@myfunkychannel Speaking isn't hard.
Reading and Writing on the other hand...
Thwacker71 7 months ago
@myfunkychannel it is hard lol by jap
Happyending0509 6 months ago
@myfunkychannel Try writing it.
Emirichan317 6 months ago
Wow, haha cute
Actress16 2 years ago