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nyanpire said:
He doesn't acts, he truly believes... even in his facebook he still inputs "languages: english, spanish" but, other than that no... he is/was a weeaboo so, maybe he believed that he knew japanese, but i am not sure about that... and he also tried to learn molvanian, i don't know if that counts...
I'm interested in learning languages as a hobby.
To give you an idea of how much work it is: it takes the average American diplomat 600 hours of intensive study to learn Spanish fluently. Japanese requires about 2,200 hours of study to have a similar level of fluency (mostly because of the writing system).
So no, I doubt Chris would be interested in learning languages as a hobby. Plus, you have to learn about the culture to truly be fluent, and Chris doesn't really care about any other cultures that we know of. If he knows of any cultures, he has a Saturday morning cartoon idea of what the culture is, I'm sure.
To give you an idea of how much work it is: it takes the average American diplomat 600 hours of intensive study to learn Spanish fluently. Japanese requires about 2,200 hours of study to have a similar level of fluency (mostly because of the writing system).
So no, I doubt Chris would be interested in learning languages as a hobby. Plus, you have to learn about the culture to truly be fluent, and Chris doesn't really care about any other cultures that we know of. If he knows of any cultures, he has a Saturday morning cartoon idea of what the culture is, I'm sure.
His version of Spanish is so autistic that I couldn't even understand it with transcptions. And I don't have any major problems with Spanish.
GrandNumberOfPounds said:
I am interested in learning languages as well... currently, i am learning russian and french... and yeah, it is not only knowing the language, it is also learning about the culture, chris doesn't do any of that, that would be too much work for him and he's too lazy for that, he's the guy that believes that japan and china are the same... if he needs to understand somebody or something that it's in another language, he'll just go "mm, yeah, i'll look it up later"
Chris's Spanish reminds me of me when I tried to learn Spanish. I regarded it as sort of like a secret code: all you had to do was memorize what words mean and construct English sentences with them.
Except that Chris was a teenager in an educational environment and I was like, eight and alone in my bedroom learning from a secondhand Spanish phrasebook because I thought it would be fun to learn Spanish.
Except that Chris was a teenager in an educational environment and I was like, eight and alone in my bedroom learning from a secondhand Spanish phrasebook because I thought it would be fun to learn Spanish.
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How can Chris possible learn a foreign language when he's just barely coherent in his native language?
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Although Chris is extremely proud of his Spanish, he had to do it for school. He wouldn't have done it on his own. Hell, after a while he didn't have motivation to do Sonichu comics anymore. No way he's going to do something he doesn't even give a shit about.
FemboiBunny said:
This. And normal people if they lie and say they know a language when they don't usually at some point get called out on it and have to admit they don't know it. Chris just doesn't give a crap (like with everything in his life) and you're right that he really does believe he speaks it perfectly. Then again, with no one to talk to, he has no way to find out that he sucks at it.
I don't know much spanish which is sort of funny considering that where I work makes me interact with a lot of people who only speak spanish. Aaaah... the fun pantomimes we must do in the middle of the night.
Learning a new language requires hard work, persistence, practice, and some level of racial and cultural sensitivity. Chris has 31 years experience of not doing any of those things. Japanese is the only other language he's been exposed to and hell would freeze over before Christian Weston Chandler gains any level of knowledge of Japanese. I'm half-way through my first semester of Japanese right now and alot of the hardcore weeb kids are struggling. Chris wouldn't stand a chance, especially outside of a classroom setting.
Chris wouldn't see any reason to study any other languages. People who want to learn new languages are interested in broadening their horizons, either quite literally through travel or simply by better understanding a culture. Their interested in enriching their daily lives. Even if they never get a chance to do it thats their ideal.
These are completely alien concepts to Chris. All he cares about is vidya, eating, and whining about his lack of a heartsweet.
Chris wouldn't see any reason to study any other languages. People who want to learn new languages are interested in broadening their horizons, either quite literally through travel or simply by better understanding a culture. Their interested in enriching their daily lives. Even if they never get a chance to do it thats their ideal.
These are completely alien concepts to Chris. All he cares about is vidya, eating, and whining about his lack of a heartsweet.
Chris only learned Spanish because he was forced to when he was at the age when his brain was still malleable enough for some things to stick and stay in there. Spanish isn't far enough from English to be that much of a challenge given enough determination and effort. It's when you start leaving the non-Latin languages behind does that challenge spike up quick a bit. Once you introduce a new alphabet it gets even harder because you basically have to learn from scratch and OPL has a snowball's chance in hell of ever learning a new alphabet.
If (and this is a very big if) Chris were to show unprecedented focus and determination he might be able to improve his Spanish and maybe another western European language like German, French or Italian. But he'll never speak Russian for example. Cyrillic is way beyond his intelligence. As for Japanese? HAHAHA, no.
Also, I can speak English and Afrikaans as well as sing some stuff in German. (Thank you Rammstein)
If (and this is a very big if) Chris were to show unprecedented focus and determination he might be able to improve his Spanish and maybe another western European language like German, French or Italian. But he'll never speak Russian for example. Cyrillic is way beyond his intelligence. As for Japanese? HAHAHA, no.
Also, I can speak English and Afrikaans as well as sing some stuff in German. (Thank you Rammstein)
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Off topic, but actually German is supposed to be easier for English natives to learn. They both evolved from the same root language so they're not too different from each other, surprisingly. Whereas Spanish descended from Latin, which is a completely different root language from English and German.
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They have the same root, but German maintains a lot of complicated grammar that English has lost. Spanish grammar/verbs are much simpler to learn.MysticMisty said:
Yeah, German has four cases and three genders. English was Germanic over 1,000 years ago but in 1066 the Norman French invaded England and a grand number of Latin words entered the English lexicon. There are both Latin and Germanic words in English.
from Latin - regal and Gallic
Germanic counterparts - kingly and French
Spanish is easier. It takes the average FSI candidate (the FSI is where diplomats go to learn languages) about 600 hours to learn Spanish while it takes about 750 hours to learn German.
But anyway, let's get back on topic.
Like I said before, Chris likely wouldn't learn a language to fluency because it's way too hard for him.
from Latin - regal and Gallic
Germanic counterparts - kingly and French
Spanish is easier. It takes the average FSI candidate (the FSI is where diplomats go to learn languages) about 600 hours to learn Spanish while it takes about 750 hours to learn German.
But anyway, let's get back on topic.
Like I said before, Chris likely wouldn't learn a language to fluency because it's way too hard for him.
Spanish orthography (owing to its well-maintained Latin roots) is largely phonetic, as well, and has an extremely simple vowel system in comparison to most other Romance languages.Francine StripeCheer said:
It'd be funny to see how Chris would respond to the challenge of learning the Ancient Greek verb system when a glance at a verb chart could make even university students
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I hate to be "that guy", but how many other people in predominantly English speaking countries bother to learn a second language? The answer is not many; Chris is hardly unique in this, so I think we can give him a pass.
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