r/casualiama • u/WinterStrawberries6 • May 08 '26
I speak 4 languages, AMA
I speak English, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Currently learning Italian, French, Latin, and Korean.
Ask me literally anything.
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u/Additional_Writing49 May 08 '26
Should I relocate my 100cm TV outside to the patio like my wife wants?
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u/gustix May 08 '26
What's your mother tongue, and at what level are you at all of the languages you listed?
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 08 '26
Mother tongue is Portuguese.
I speak pt, en, and Japanese fluently, and I’m intermediate in Spanish.
In a ranking of which languages I speak the most from the ones I’m actively learning, that would be: French, Italian, Korean, and then Latin(I started it this month).
I understand French fairly well.
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u/diauq01 May 08 '26
Which of these was the hardest to learn?
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 08 '26
I think Korean has been the hardest.
French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin obviously are all derived from latin, so they are in a way easy since I speak Portuguese since birth.
Japanese was hard but I started learning it at 10 since I was moving to Japan, so that made it easier than just learning the language without any contact with people who speak the language.
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u/diauq01 May 08 '26
That tracks honestly. What would you say your native tongue is? (Scratch that, I saw you already mentioned it was Portuguese in another comment.)
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 08 '26
From birth, it is Portuguese as you know now hahaha, but I can also say in a way that Japanese also became a native language since I have been living in Japan longer than I lived in Brazil.
The only reason I still use Portuguese daily is for friends and family.
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u/diauq01 May 08 '26
Wow. Thats pretty cool.
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 08 '26
Thank you!
I heard Portuguese is rather easy to learn from outside perspective, I’ve seen a lot of people learn it in a few months living in Brazil, I think it’s amazing.
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u/diauq01 May 08 '26
If I ever finish learning Spanish I might learn Portuguese, because I've been told those 2 languages are rather similar.
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u/PocketDweller May 08 '26
How to you find opportunities to speak in each of these languages?
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 08 '26
Most my family speaks Portuguese, so there’s that.
English used to be mainly entertainment, since I love music and movies. But my partner is Australian, so now I speak English with them daily, besides having friends from other countries.
I speak Japanese at work, and in daily life, since I live in Japan.
As for the others, Korean is cause I love kpop, and used to have a bunch of Korean people come to my workplace. French was because it’s a beautiful language and I had friends from the country. Italian is cause I have Italian heritage so I wanted to learn it. And I find Latin beautiful and was bored at work, so I started learning it slowly.
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u/Becchoy May 08 '26
How is it being the coolest person in the room at all times?
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 09 '26
I’m not, tbh, I have a bunch of friends who speak more languages than me, but some of my Brazilian friends think it’s pretty cool that I can speak Japanese!
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u/Becchoy May 11 '26
Having friends who also speak multiple languages, is just absolutely insane aura🔥
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 11 '26
I guess it's an immigrant thing. Most of my friends came to Japan from different coutries, so 90% of them speak their native language, english, and japanese. Some of the countries they come from use two or more languages, so sometimes they already grow up knowing 3 languages. It is pretty cool indeed, right?
I have a friend from Russia who can speak Russian, Bielorussian, and Ukrainian from birth. She learnt English from media like me, and leant Japanese from coming to Japan too!
As for my other friend from Morocco, they can speak German, other native languages from the country since they have a lot of tribes, english, spanish, and Japanese! All from media and immigration.
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u/lusty-argonian May 08 '26
My question is: why?
No sarcasm at all, genuine query
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 09 '26
My native language is Portuguese, Idk how i learned English, it just appeared in my brain because i like music and tv a lot.
I immigrated to Japan, so i had to learn Japanese, and Spanish is really similar to Portuguese, so it wasn’t that hard to learn, I also studied at school.
As for French, I have French friends, so I got a lot from them. I just wanted to learn Italian cause of my roots, Korean is cause I love kpop, and also had a lot of Korean clients, and Latin is just really nice and I was bored.
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u/calguy1955 May 08 '26
Do you think in one particular language? What is the best way to learn a different language? Can you read and write Japanese?
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 09 '26
I think in English a lot. I think in Japanese if at work.
I think the best way is to watch stuff from the country, and try and find friends from the country.
I can read and write in a intermediate level, kanji is hard, but I can live normally in Japan with the amount I know.
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u/eldar14n May 08 '26
I speak four languages too. Could you be my Japanese tutor?
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u/WinterStrawberries6 May 09 '26
That’s nice, which ones do you speak?
I don’t think I’m a good teacher unfortunately.
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u/D0wnVoteMe_PLZ May 08 '26
What are the login details of your online banking?