GuenevereShrom

I love Japanese language! Like you I am an anime fan too and watching anime without subtitle yet getting the gist of what they're talking is so refreshing. It felt like I have achieved a great deal! Arabic is also my least favourite, and I am in an Arabic country! So I find myself always lost everyday being surrounded by Arabic speakers. Not that I didn't try to learn it since I did, still do, but it just really won't stick in my head and they say I speak in funny accent when I do.

Aside from English, I think Arabic, Hindi and French. With many countries that speak these languages, you wouldn't feel left out or lost when talking to a native or when you find yourself in one of these countries.

I'd say start them young! I am teaching my two and four year old cousins, just basic words. Surprisingly, they easily remember them. Though they tended to mix the languages before when I tried to teach them two in addition to our native language. So, basics I guess at that age should do. Then proceed further once they're old enough, say when they start in grade school?

Whenever I visit my mother and surrounded by English people, I tend to speak in their accent. (though there were times I did it just for fun ) Then when I return to work, my colleagues would comment on my accent and would automatically return to the norm.

I am teaching my two year old and four year old cousins. Just the basic words and it was nice until they got confused that they didn't know which language to use and their sentences were intermixtures of languages I thought them and the language we speak at home. So I only focus now on one language at a time. :angel:

I was told that I have a mannerism where I always say Aigoo which basically means "oh my" or "ugh". I blame K-pop on that!

First, because it was required of us. Part of the curriculum, you see. Then, I got hooked up with Nihongo due to Anime but got no one to talk to so it was a bit unproductive (talked to myself most of the time that everyone who heard me thought I've gone barmy). Few years after, I relocated to an Arabic country and basically it's a must that I speak Arabic yet, I'm still hopeless at it. It's not that hard but I found that there are languages close to your heart that wanting to learn them come easy unlike others that even if you gave your hardest you'd still find yourself back to square one.