All our base are belong to Japanese!

[transemacabre]

WTF. Is everyone on lj apart from me taking Japanese language classes? Go browsing through random profiles, I'll guarantee you every second ljer is posting about their Japanese midterm, or the funny thing Mandy-chan said in Japanese class, or learning to say "Make love to me, Sephiroth" in Japanese.

My boyfriend was one of those unfortunate people who thinks that because he's watched a couple of (dubbed) anime, then he "already knows" some Japanese, and wouldn't it be fun if we took a class together? I gave him a very pointed look and told him that he was welcome to take Japanese if he wanted to, but I couldn't be bribed into studying kanji twenty hours a day, trapped in a room with anime freaks. Not that all people who watch anime are freaks, mind you. Just that all anime fans who take Japanese classes are freaks. (The preceding was in jest. No offense is meant to anime freaks, you scary scary bastards).

Besides, Turkish is a WAY cooler language, anyway. Tamam?

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[kali921.livejournal.com]

No way I'm taking Japanese. It's low on the list of languages I want to learn. I already have Russian and French, so I want to learn:

Italian (easy)
Georgian (HARD - SO NOT AN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE, OKAY?)
Spanish (easy, and why not just go for the Romance Language Trifecta?)
Serbo-Croatian
Hawaiian
Greek
Latin (again)
Finnish (TWENTY SEVEN CASES)
Actually, Hungarian
Turkish/some Turkic Language
Gaelic
German

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

I just never thought Japanese sounded very good at all. In my opinion, the Chinese syllabary is much more aesthetically pleasing than the Japanese, too.

One of my friends is a native Hawaiian (as in, descendant of Kamehameha). Very cool language, just listening to it is relaxing. I'm all about the languages of the Middle East, though -- I want to learn Turkish (fluently), Farsi, Arabic.

One of my cousins was a teenaged vandal, so he got sent for a summer to one of those reform schools. His roommate was a full-blooded Apache who couldn't or wouldn't speak a word of English. My cousin actually learned Apache from this kid, and twenty years later they're still best friends.

Fullproof scheme for kali to learn Turkish!

1. Go to Turkey and meet sexy Turk
2. ???
3. Profit!