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02-12-2011, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by angelmod View Post
what i would say is...im speaking about 6 languages and it wasnt so hard like to learn this japanese.
I'm guessing the six languages were something like German, English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian. I notice that every single one is from the same language family. And you could go to any major city in Germany and encounter all six. And you probably learned at least English in school, if not Spanish/French/Italian/Dutch as well.

Structured learning + language similar to your native language = easy

I studied Spanish for three years as a child, and I can to this day pick up a high level technical writing in Spanish and read it very easily. I cannot do this with Japanese despite having lived over there and studied for 4 years in college + tried harder + studied on my own for 4 years after college.
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