Which languages do you speak?

Also, The Matrix (1999)
I started studying Japanese in 2002, but that movie was popular regardless, and, if you can read Japanese;
You'd know Matrix digital rain is mirrored Katakana and western numbers. Still gibberish though.

 

Also............


There is no R sound.

So to say Retorikku Sensei correctly it's; 'Letolikku Sensei'.

London is
ロンドン
Rondon.

All R words get pronounced with an L, all L words are spelt with an R.
Ra, Re, Ri, Ro, Ru...
Because this is no La, Le, Li. Lo, Lu letters.
There are no Ra, Re, Ri, Ro, Ru sounds
Only La, Le, Li, Lo, Lu sounds.

ロ
Ro
ン
N
ド
Do
ン
N

ロンドン - London.

London like my name, like guitar, like ANYTHING that isn't Japanese, gets written in Katakana.
ロンドン This is what Katakana looks like.
すし This is Sushi, written in Hiragana, because Sushi is Japanese.

Japanese evolved from Chinese, so, things like mother, gold, tree, person etc... Are written in Kanji, but we start Japanese 101 with Hiragana and Katakana.

Yes is Hai.
はい
Hai

は
Ha
い
i

はい = Hai.
Means yes.

No is I-e (pronounced e-yeah)
いいえ
Iie (I-e)

い
I
い
i
え
e

いいえ = I-e
Means no (Sounds like English for yeah).

 

Bloody hell, I'm seriously shocked to find an Indonesian speaker here.
I moved over 10 years ago, starting in Wonosobo, then Purwokerto and finally to South Tangerang.
I still prefer Java but there's less cash to be had there.
I don't want to be a bule miskin even if I an a bule gila.

 

Saya Cinta Jawa, juga.

No Javanese though. Did you learn the language before moving there?

 

Central Java is generally great but my favourite will always be Wonosobo. You have to live there to fully understand why but the lack of stress is a real boost. People there have a tidak apa apa way of life and it's great.
Apart from 'thank you' I hardly knew a word before I landed but it came with time.
Come to think of it I hardly planned anything, just dumped everything in England and moved over.
Saya seratus persen gila but what a great adventure.

I became Indonesian last December. Long and hard process but worth it.

 

The closest I've been to Indonesia was this Indonesian/Suriname fusion place to eat called Tokoman in Amsterdam.

... I guess Indonesia like Suriname were Dutch colonies? Well, they're represented in Amsterdam anyway.

 

LOVE central Java. Lived in Jogja for a while, one of the happiest times of my life. The peace of it, even living in the city, was extraordinary. It's a people thing, I guess. The 'softness' of the Central Javanese. The very gracious culture, the music, art, ancient monuments, volcanoes, etc etc. So much beauty.

Meantime, I get the thing about Wonosobo. Totally. And I can see why you decided to un-bule yourself. I came close once .. via an almost marriage (to a Javanese aristocrat, of all things). In the end it was the climate that got me. The older I got, the less I could tolerate the heat and the lack of distinct seasons. Now I can only take it for a week at a time

Edited to add: Well done on arriving with nothing more than a 'thank you'! Full immersion is the only way to fly. I did study the language before going, but living there is what sealed it.

 

Probably run by Chinese

 

Probably...

This girl who lured me in looked half black/half white, and this guy who served me was Asian; both seemed like local Amsterdamers to me though.. It was that night I learned of Caribbean food not being Jamaican. A Rastafarian (maybe) He had long hair wrapped up, customer greeted the Asian man like he was a regular I noticed, but, not Jamaican at all; It was learning that night eating my dinner taking it all in looking at posters that reminded me of Street Fighter II Turbo on the SNES and Blanka...
That was in 2015; I took me from September 2015 to May 2017 to find the place for Yelp (and my own personal record of places I've been to/seen/done etc).. Only then did I find out it was an Indonesian/Suriname fusion place... Which made more sense.
Also, I tried something and... It was Indonesian, and I spent a year and a half (or more) thinking it was Caribbean food, but not like Jerked Meats or Roti bread or Plantain or Spice Bun or whatever; Something I ate there I never saw before and ordered because I wanted to try. - Closest I've had to Indonesian culture.

 

Now that's a really nice city.
Wonosobo is only a couple of hours away from Yogya by motorbike so I visited often.

 

Can you describe it?

 

Sure

https://www.yelp.com/biz/tokoman-amsterdam


(Not my photo).. (I was more fascinated with another aspect of this place/I just took pictures of these posters of the Caribbean they had on the wall as it looked alien to the Caribbean I was aware of at the time).
-- It's that brown thing at the top left of this photo in the carb' section over the noodles farthest from the camera. That. Do you know what that brown stuff is?
I think it's tofu but crunchy, idk.

 

I only speak English but I know a little Spanish. I use Google translate if I have to.

 

I want to get a translator app on my phone. I don't think I have one. That could be very useful.

 

I loved it to bits. Lived in quiet little gang, right in town. Many happy memories. I used to go into the Palace to study ... sitting in those lovely old garden pavilions. Or out to the zoo via horse and buggy. Early buses to Borobudur, late afternoons at Prambanan, dinners from the kaki lima. I actually experience considerable homesickness when I think too long about that country. It's the only place (apart from my nation of birth) I've felt that.

 

I use google translate all the time when getting replies to the basic Japanese words I comment with to Japanese instagram.
I've used it to add new words in my vocab' too.
I use it all the time when speaking Spanish that is talking to Spanish speaking people I know... Mostly women, a couple of guys... Around the work place too...
Thanks to life, I've learned basic Spanish, thanks to being me and a Scorpio, I've learned all the romantic words (I thought Te Amo meant you're welcome or something, for 2 days or so).. It doesn't. I know what it means now jajaja

Muack!

I know in Ecuador you add tito to the end of my name as a sign of affection.

and........ She be cita.

Mamacita es para mi Mexicana amiga, or something.

Passionate, passionate language.

I also know how to say Jalapeno without saying jal-pine-no like a lot of people here do.

 

I'm definitely not fluent in Spanish. I know some words and stuff, but they talk too fast for me to understand what they are saying most of the time!

 

I love patois since I speak English and patois is English based...


It's just broken English.

Bredren is Brethren.
Safe, bare, this is my 2nd language if my brain has one; Patois.
Like creole but not because that's mixed with Spanish and French but Patois is broken English, ya get me?/ Do you understand what I mean?

 

Yeah, there should be a 'I use google translate' option on the poll or something.. I guess.

If there were, I'd click that with all the other ones I clicked.

Also, I counted English as other, even though it was an English speaking poll , but then, I guess I can justify other as all that Cockney my father taught me growing up. My father's a Cockney, same circles as

back in the day, before he was called Michael Caine.

 

I can't see myself leaving Indonesia.
I've heard it described as a third world country and I've seen so much poverty that sort of agrees with that but it isn't what most people expect at all.
I'm far more at home here than I ever was in the UK .. and the sambal.. enak.

 

Spanish speakers always go full machinegun and it is one of the reasons I do not like their language.

 

They do talk fast, that's for sure. I'm like, wait! Slow down! I think you said manana and that means tomorrow!

 

Swedish is a (North) Germanic language.

 

I just cannot get how a people who otherwise have such a relaxed and laidback attitude on life can talk so fast.

 

English, Yiddish and Russian