how many of you can speak Japanese？

[Karo92]

I am Learning it by myelf
It's hard to find someone who could teach it in germany.
And also translating by one self. nearly all translators you can find on the Internet are in engisch,
so sometimes you loose the right sence of the sentence why retranslating that in german.

So If annyone wonna help me: JUST DO IT!!

[Road]

Hahah, I wish I could. A friend of mine knows some, so I just ask her how to say things every once in awhile. The most I can do is yell "ANATA WA BAKA DESU" every once in awhile.

I plan to take classes next year though, if I can replace an elective with a second language. ;D

[Rowenny]

I'm learning Japanese in university right now, so, I can speak Japanese. My skills are enough to speak in ordinary conversations with people my age and teachers, but, I can't speak about anything difficult, because I don't know really difficult words. Last year a group of students from Japan came to our country and I spoke to quite a lot of girls, it was easy and fun. ^_^

[diversemelody]

I've been learning it for exactly one year. I'm more than half way through Rosetta Stone level 3, and I also look up a lot of things online and use Smart FM. I can speak it somewhat decently. I can read katakana and hiragana. I can only read about three to four dozen Kanji though. I'm really focusing more on learning to speak it and then write/read it later. I would consider myself intermediate level, even though I've been studying it for such a short time. I've been told by several native Japanese speakers that I'm pretty good, though I'm not really sure myself. I still get excited when I watch anime and can understand a whole sentence. That's not counting really short sentences though like "what do you mean?" "who are you?" etc. But I was proud of myself. The last episode of Death Note I watched, I could understand 5 sentences. There was one REALLY long one that I think I MIGHT have understood all of it. I heard a bunch of words I knew, some of which took me a moment to put together, and when I looked on the subtitles I recognized all the words. Of course, that didn't mean they were all in there so I had to rewind it a few times but they were just talking too quickly for me to catch it.

The whole reason I was looking for a Japanese radio station online was so I could practice listening. Plus, I have a HUGE, practically unhealthy obsession with foreign languages. Hence why I want to learn as many languages as I possibly can and become a translator.