What is your biggest problem with the Japanese language?

[kenmei]

particles and what goes where sometimes confuses the heck out of me

kanji is a given...

[kaelazors]

Originally Posted by SSJup81

Yes, I am. Those are the definitions of dekiru and suru I have; "to be able to do" or "can do" and suru as "to do".

yeah suru's one of those super tricky verbs that changes a lot when you use different forms

[Rogozhin]

Writing kanji on paper. Online, where I do most of my writing, you can just let IME modify your hiragana into kanji.

Well, it's not so much the writing of kanji but remembering what kanji goes with what word (I'll know if it's right or not by looking at it, so reading isn't a problem)

[james1254]

Originally Posted by SSJup81

Yes, I am. Those are the definitions of dekiru and suru I have; "to be able to do" or "can do" and suru as "to do".

that is what they mean but dekiru is a conjugation of suru

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by james1254

that is what they mean but dekiru is a conjugation of suru

I was never taught that. I just use it. lol

[Wasabista]

The hardest thing for me is that Japanese is a left-branching language. So instead of saying "This is the mouse that lives in the house that Jack built," you say, "This (topic) Jack built house in lives mouse is."

It becomes natural after a while but in long sentences it can still get confusing so you have to do a bit of planning.

[mandalina]

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[Nagoyankee]

Originally Posted by mandalina

"This is the mouse that lives in the house that Jack built,"
When I translate it to Turkish it's "Bu, Jack'in inşaa ettiği evde yaşayan faredir." (This, Jack built house lives mouse)

I tried to write it in Japanese:

これはジャックが造った家で棲む鼠

I did it thinking in Turkish sentence structure and I wonder if I did right or wrong

That is amazing! We have just about the same word order!! Add です at the end of that Japanese sentence and you will have a perfect sentence!

[emiluvsjmusic]

Originally Posted by Rogozhin

Writing kanji on paper. Online, where I do most of my writing, you can just let IME modify your hiragana into kanji.

Well, it's not so much the writing of kanji but remembering what kanji goes with what word (I'll know if it's right or not by looking at it, so reading isn't a problem)

I agree, typing kanji is pretty easy, and reading kanji isn't so bad
but writing kanji is the worst >.< gahhh

[Wasabista]

So Turkish has left-branching grammar too. Actually I think you should say "ni sumu" not "de sumu" but otherwise the sentence looks perfect.