Ok, so, I'm part German. My mom and Oma are fluent in German, My sister took German in high school, I took two years of German in high school... So, yeah. German. I've heard it all my life, I've spoken a bit of it for as long as I can remember, you'd think I can pronounce it.
Well, apparently I can't.
I've worked on Japanese pronunciation since middle school, but I didn't think that mastering Japanese pronunciation (to a degree) would completely throw off my German pronunciation. 0.o It's the "r"s really. In Japanese the "r" sound is a mixture of "l" "r" and "d" whereas in German the "r" is rolled. There are a couple other things that throw me off to.
So my mom and I were reading some books in German today and I tried reading and no matter what I did the words would not come out correctly! 0.o I was so frustrated!
And on top of that, I went to reply to my mom in German but I didn't know how to say what I wanted in German so I used Japanese.
While yes it's a good thing that Japanese is coming so much easier to me than German now, I'm still slightly upset that I've lost some of my German speaking skills...
Speaking of languages other than Japanese, I don't think I've mentioned this before but there are 5 languages that I want to learn to fluency:
Japanese, German, French, Korean, and Italian.
Well, thanks for reading! I'll try to post more Japanese soon! ^-^
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