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[animefreak42.livejournal.com]

Just curious, but does anyone know what other languages each of the Arashi boys can speak?

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[bonmoustache.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Sho knows a lot of English... not sure how fluent he is or isn't, and I know Aiba claims to know English. That's about as far as I know and I can't confirm the accuracy of them. :[

[aishitsuzukeru.livejournal.com]

Matsujun has been known to have interest in learning Chinese.

[gimmick-game.livejournal.com]

Sho is supposedly fluent in English, but it seems like he reads and writes it better than he speaks. He also knows some Mandarin and Korean. (they all took Mandarin lessons as a part of the early MMA episodes).

Aiba can speak limited (and very broken) english. (And has a tendancy to stick japanese into it.)

Nino knows a bit of english, and uses it randomly.

[hypergrafia.livejournal.com]

Where can we hear Sho speak English? :) I want to hear! I want to hear! :)

[fruitlolita.livejournal.com]

there's a youtube video with sho speaking english to an english-speaking robot, with a very cute ending! it should be easy to find :)

[hypergrafia.livejournal.com]

can you please give me the link?

i've been youtubing like crazy the whole night last night to find english speaking sho vids, but i didn't find any english speaking sho vids. :(

i did however, find a lot of adorable, sweet, smart, industrious and witty sho vids. :)

[fruitlolita.livejournal.com]

the one i had favorited was taken down. but you should be able to download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L9377WQJ
taken from here: http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/334349.html?style=mine

[hypergrafia.livejournal.com]

thank you.... :)

[jessloveshyd.livejournal.com]

Jun speaks Mandarin pretty well. I don't know if he really knows it or is just good at memorizing and pronunciating.

:) just to clarify. ^_^

[hypergrafia.livejournal.com]

Does he really? I know he mentioned that he couldn't speak it so well and had a hard time learning it...

[jessloveshyd.livejournal.com]

My friend speaks it and heard him during the taiwan con. She said he sounded pretty natural.

[alkithilien.livejournal.com]

I think word "speak" is too much. But also I heard Sho-kun learned some Spanish in uni.

[krazeekaytee.livejournal.com]

I know Sho speaks English, and he doesn't have much of a Japanese accent when he speaks it. :P

[psychoxxgarden.livejournal.com]

yay for sho~ <333

[acidae.livejournal.com]

I don't really think they're fluent in anything but Japanese, honestly. With a little bit of brushing up and memorizing romanized pronounciations, they can speak pretty much anything-- and of course forget what they learned soon afterwards. But let's see...

All of them know bits and pieces of English since after all, it's Japan and the entire country has an obsession with the Western culture (Engrish lyrics, anyone?) but Sho is probably a bit better than most of the other guys, and they know snatches of Mandarin and Korean as well, though mostly token phrases like "hi my name is", "thank you", "goodbye", etc. Sho took at least one Mandarin class in high school, so his Mandarin is also a bit better than the others.

Oh, and Sho had to memorize a short speech in Thai, Ohno in Korean, and Jun in Mandarin for their Arashi Around Asia thing. That's all I can think of off the top of my head right now, but yeah. :)