What is hard for you about Japanese?

[koibito]

I've been studying Japanese since I was in the seventh grade. The reason it's been taking me so long is that in the beginning I got really frustrated with particles! I would learn something new in my lesson book. Then I would try to translate a song (another problem is probably that I couldn't find any lower level reading material) but I would get hung up on concepts like "mo ... nai" or "dore gurai". I have since beaten into myself the basic meanings of 'ha', 'wo', 'ni', 'de' etc. but I still struggle with levels of trueness, where you use grammar to show how certain or hypothetical a thing is. It's a concept I consider to be very peculiar to Japanese.

[koibito]

Hey that's how I learned my kana! *for real!*

[Amaranto]

I Would say my hardest part is too set words in the correct order.

[cocoluvnihon]

i honestly hav fun with the speaking but the hardest part for me is the grammar and the kanji

[Demysia]

Pronunciation is a definite for me, particles I sometimes have trouble with.

[chizkulet]

I'm having problems with sentence construction and kanji.

[legend]

The hardest part for me is kanji and grammer

[gn1225]

hard thing about japanese

1. wrting in japanese
2.pronunciation of words
in japanese there are a los of words that have alike pronunciation
or you need to change a little thing
3. putting words in order ( the nouns verbs adjectives, those things

[Anne0]

I think the most difficult part if Japanese for me has changed as I learnt more japanese right now i'm at the imtermediate/advanced level. Meaning grammer is advanced but my vocabulary and kanji knowledge is intermediate.
1)Right now i'm finding learning all the words is just daunting. I read an essay in my kanji book about how trash is becoming a real issue in tokyo and what people can do to help aliviate the issue. There's were about 50 new words in that one essay.

2)I also find that since I learnt correct grammer first it's sometimes hard to understand my friends when they speak or write to me. I have a friend who messages me like i'm Japanese. She knows i'm not japanese and i've never lived there but since I understand 99% of what she says so she has become comfortable speaking freely with me. But the truth is sometimes I have to sit and read what she wrote like 10 times cause I understand all the words and particles but can't figure out how to make sense of it all. Cause she' using normal Japanaese grammer when I learned ultra correct japanese grammer.
So I guess my biggest problem is what you said. The textbooks don't prepare me for normal japanese.
oh if you're a beginner I know this excellent book. It was my first japanese language book and I think it laid a wonderful foundation for me. It's all conversation. It has no translations in it. It only translates new words that turn up in the dialogues so it's up to you to figure out how it all works in a sentence. It was hard at first but the pay off is well worth the headache.
Amazon.com: Berlitz Basic Japanese (Berlitz Basic Language Course): Books: Basic Books,Berlitz Publishing Company

[Janissary]

Hello,

The ?cityhall/mayor? has opened many free courses. One of them is Japanese language. Our book contains 25 units, we finished 11 so far.

But their system is like this: you cant start writing course until you finish the grammer book.

So I've been learning romanji...

Anyway, I think it's very easy for a Turk to learn Japanese. Pronunciation is easy, grammer is alike. But of course I havent yet learned complicated things. But it seems easy. Just need practice (memorizing).

I bought the hiragana & katakana books out of curiosity. Man, 100 letters, it's going to be tough And I heard kanji got way too much letters.

Kanji really scares me.

For kana, ok. This sounds writen with this symbol. That sound writen with that symbol. But i think kanji aint following regular rules...

I think most diffucult part for me will be learning new words. I gotta find a good dictionary

*I dont care much for writing... Speaking/understanding is enough for me*