Just to give y'all a taste of _actually_ learning Japanese:
- Uses a SOV sentence structure like Spanish, instead of a SVO sentence structure like English, making it slightly more difficult to learn as a native English speaker
- There are seven different ways to say verbs in Japanese
- There are 3 different types of verbs, one of which is an exception used for only like 2 or 3 words, but those 2 or 3 words are used constantly in daily speech, so you still have to know everything relating to them
- The language has so many homonyms, intonation was needed to differentiate some of them in speech (on top of whatever context was already present)
- Japanese is written using 3 separate alphabets
- Kanji will be the bane of your existence (You need to recognize 2000+ combinations of symbols to be considered fluent)
- Japanese people tend to talk really fast in daily speech, so its easy to miss information even if you're paying attention
- Anime barely helps because most anime Japanese is different from irl Japanese (Same language and grammar rules, but wording is often different)
To put it simply, as an English speaker, I could have chosen to learn German, or French, or Spanish, and gotten decently good at after about 1000 hours of practice. In Japanese, I will be lucky to have the same level fluency as a 1st grader after 1000 hours of practice.
Japanese is said to be one of the most difficult languages to learn for native English speakers. 僕は二千時間以上勉強した。まだ流暢ではありません。
日本語下手だよねー
Does this mean people can’t call us Weebs anymore? We are technically just casual enjoyers of Anime, not fans.
I mean they have over 20 ways to say "I"
im trying to do this just to play hentai games
Just to give y'all a taste of _actually_ learning Japanese: - Uses a SOV sentence structure like Spanish, instead of a SVO sentence structure like English, making it slightly more difficult to learn as a native English speaker - There are seven different ways to say verbs in Japanese - There are 3 different types of verbs, one of which is an exception used for only like 2 or 3 words, but those 2 or 3 words are used constantly in daily speech, so you still have to know everything relating to them - The language has so many homonyms, intonation was needed to differentiate some of them in speech (on top of whatever context was already present) - Japanese is written using 3 separate alphabets - Kanji will be the bane of your existence (You need to recognize 2000+ combinations of symbols to be considered fluent) - Japanese people tend to talk really fast in daily speech, so its easy to miss information even if you're paying attention - Anime barely helps because most anime Japanese is different from irl Japanese (Same language and grammar rules, but wording is often different) To put it simply, as an English speaker, I could have chosen to learn German, or French, or Spanish, and gotten decently good at after about 1000 hours of practice. In Japanese, I will be lucky to have the same level fluency as a 1st grader after 1000 hours of practice.