Do alot of people in japan speak english?

Probably what the French say when we say words like "resume", "rendezvous", etc... or when we don't say them for that matter.

 

Spanish is going through that. Lots of Anglicisms in Mexican Spanish that cannot be understood in Spanish-Spanish because, after all, they're so far away from the States. Mexican marketers seem to have the same complex that made Engrish - they want to put stuff in English in their ads even if they can't begin to fathom the language.

Thus, we get short lived products like "American Security Systems" (which is shown as an Acronym with a wolf's image under it), which, of course, are hilarious for people that have gone above grade-school English.

Man, I wish I'd taken a picture of that one...

Mr. Casual - Yeah, Freakazoid was a WB cartoon show back in the early 90s, when the Internet was just becoming a buzzword. The hero is some sort of geek that becomes a superhero by entering a "special keyword" into the web after getting a new processor for his computer.
Eventually, he meets some guy who goes to conventions and loves super heroes and wants, desperately, to be his sidekick - FanBoy, or "FB!".
I think, however, the term has to have been used before this - but I'm sure he's the posterboy from the Internet Era fanboyism.

 

I have heard it originated from comic book collectors.

 

I cant get a shit from those tex-mexs. They speak this kind of babbled spanish with black english and lack of logic. In other word: just shot them

Anyways, french easier than spanish? french has like 4 types of acentuation, and more rules that D&D :smt042

I friend of mine knows russian. Its not that difficult, most of it weird letters are actually an equivalent of ours.

Yeah, Freakazoid, too nerdy for the mainstream, yet pretty easy to understand. It had some really well written episodes, but the last ones were pretty crappy.

FB was like the fat owner of the comic store in the simpsons, just that more stupid and childish (think that this show was in WBkids).

The scene with Mark Hamill rocks, too bad that the generation at it was targeted to didnt even kwen what starwars was :smt043

 

I donwloaded the first two episodes and watched them. I think it was pretty good.

 

-hot pussy on the spanish channels (good) <- Oh man I just spit my lunch all over my desk! It's so true too! I love telemundo soley for that reason!

 

aha, pretty funny indeed.
i don't think anyone who say this sound stupid though, that's just make me smile.

French is a pretty though language, maybe not the worst, but grammatically speaking
this is hell, even for someone who speak it since his first word, and write it since the elementary school. there's just way too much exceptions. But writting and speaking is
two different things.

For an easy language, go for English for sure.

 

You just described English. Painfully apparent when you try to teach ESL. :/
Not sure about the other langauges, but US kids are still learning grammar in high school. The Japanese kids are up to their noses in kanji.

 

US kids can't bloody speak English !! You only have to play counter stike or some other online PC game to know that.

Yakumo

 

Indeed

>I n33d sum h31p!!1
>n33d sum amm0!!1
>1m d34d!!!1

I bet he wont if he didnt take that much time to write in 133t

 

There was an Englishman on TS:Fp the other day with a muffled, slurry English accent, and no one knew what he was sayin'.

Awyoublurrygitduntthrunadesadjateamuts!

Translation
AH! You bloody idiot dont throw grenades at your teammates!

 

That's because he can't speak English eaither. There are quite a few older guys who just mumble away. Japan has them too. I can't understand half the old guys here. just sounds like one bid mumble to me.

Yakumo

 

guess it's a big desease all over the world :\

 

Spanish and Portuguese being so alike, this is also so very true for Portuguese.

Too bad I haven't got a degree or at least some formation in teaching Portuguese. It'd be awesome to live there and get a job teaching Portuguese. Well, I may teach some English instead as I believe my english (teaching) skills are way better than my Portuguese ones.

 

So IF I start making a game in Japanes and don't know much of the language, you think it'l be grammatically correct. : )

 

goto www.engrish.com for good examples

 

Wow, I so DIDNT know about Engrish yet! (J/K)

Seriously, I think there is even an Engrish thread in here, somewhere.

 

Don't get me started on putting accents on irregular preterit words. That pisses the hell out of me!

 

Heh, this reminds me of an e-mail I sent to a Japanese university student some while ago. She was 23 years old, was doing her master's degree at uni, and still she asked me to use easy english in her first reply.

Now it's not really that much of a problem anymore, as I am studying Japanese at university. Funny how fast my Japanese surpassed her English actually.


I heard French and German language education was much better in Japan, but also much smaller than its English counterpart. Is this correct?

 

or would you thats spell english?