Being trilingual

I recently completed the Japanese program at my school and started the Chinese one.  I have been forgetting my Japanese at an alarming rate.  Is it possible to learn more than one foreign language in addition to your own or should I give up?

yes but like anything, you must keep applying it or you will forget it.

A friend of mine speaks English, Chinese (Mandarin), and Japanese all with native-like fluency so it's not impossible. She was born in China, moved to U.S. where she majored English in university, and then moved to Japan to learn Japanese. She has been working as a trilingual translator for 5 years.

Once you learn something you never forget it.

>>4
not true. Its like an instrument. you have to keep practicing or using it all the time to keep your skill level. Even Japanese people who are away from home more then 6 months lose kanji.

In lots of countries, you're EXPECTED to be trilingual, like a lot of European countries (with the native language, English and another major European language) and some Arab countries like Lebanon with (Arabic, French and English).

Though you could even say many Lebanese are quadri- or even quintilingual, since Levantine Arabic differs significantly from Standard Arabic which they almost HAVE to know, and most of them know Egyptian Arabic as well.

Of course, not everyone reaches/keeps fluency in all these languages, but some do.

>>6

What the fuck are you talking about? If I visit Europe and I'm stuck in the middle of fucking Poland I won't be expecting services in English.

I expected most swiss to be trilingual, yet bilingual is the norm there.

My ass is omni-lingual, and my nut sack can type code in every programming language in the universe.

Most europeans are trilingual.

>>10
That's because all Romance Languages are pretty much the same. I'd like to see someone who's fluent in Japanese, English, and !Kung.

i speak English, Russian, French, Spanish, German, and Latin. LATIN. i can speak a language that nobody speaks for fuck's sake. if you can't fit 3 languages into your head then you're either not trying hard enough or you just aren't cut out for language.

>>12
What this man says.

I guess I can do it.  I tend to be lazy, I never really applied Japanese outside of class, like I do now in short bursts.  I think it's just the realization that I don't have a great vocabulary, more than the fact that I'm forgetting it.

 I try to do things like ordering in Japanese, sometimes the waitress is quite impressed. Watching channel 18 (which sometimes shows Japanese TV programs in LA)  Visiting Little Tokyo just isn't enough anymore(Weeaboos have pretty much taken over the area, taking pictures of signs that say "restroom") and they discontinued the free conversational course they were offering at the "koban" in the area(which was also taken over by weeaboos)

need to speak a language regularly to know it

>>11
I have Turkish, Hebrew, English and Japanese.

That's at least three different language families, and four according to most common definitions.

Though yes, I fail at kanji tremendously.

>>12
notice how all of the languages you mentioned are closely related to one another in at least one respect?  how the fuck does that relate to the OP?  don't even say kanji because kanji in chinese and japanese are two completely different things, keep your useless comments to yourself

>>17
Troll detected. No real person could possibly be this stupid.

>>18
Troll detected. No real person could possibly be this stupid.