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Japanese is harder/easier than other languages in what ways? (self.japaneselanguage)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Sarruby to c/[email protected]

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I want something to say when my other language-learning friends talk about how hard/easy XYZ language is.

For example, for easy parts:

No genders
Easy vowels/consonants

For difficulties:

Kanji
Formality

Please help? Thanks!

Edit: summary of comments for my future reference:

Easier:

no genders
resource rich for learning
simpler tenses

Easy and hard:

pronunciation (consistent, but accent hard to eliminate)
grammar (consistent but different)

Harder:

Kanji (like icons)
formality

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[–] Cyo 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only step of learning Japanese that I consider hard is memorizing Kanji. Using them later becomes easy but what can make the learning complicated is that for example: Let's say that I don't know any kanji and I want to learn by reading: "Oh I found this, how do I pronounce it '何' ??? .... ): " Learning kanji requires to read the dictionary or taking the info from some source.

Back when I learned English I could learn a word by reading it and understanding the context. "W O R D" was what I say, letters so I could pronounce it. But kanji is different, It requires more "active " study to memorize.

Sometimes I think that kanji is in someway similar to the icons of the Apps on my phone. For example the Icon of WhatsApp, when I see it I know it's WhatsApp,but that only because I have previously learned that.

Learning kanji is somehow hard but more than difficult it just requires time. Actually I like learning kanjis, the feeling of "strange symbols " becoming words to ny brain is one of the best sensations that I could have experienced in my whole life.

[–] Sarruby 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks!! I like that analogy.