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Originally Posted by bigtoe205
Well, I've watch anime and I very love Japanese. It sounds very lovely. But I've heard that Japanese is really hard to learn. It's so different from English or France. I'm learning Chinese and find it's so difficult to remember Chinese characters. They say that Japanese is even more difficult... o.O
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Well, Japanese is indeed hard to learn, but not so much if you study it systematically, little by little. I used to attend a Chinese class and I can tell you that Japanese is actually easier to learn. First of all, Japanese doesn't have as many phonemes as Chinese does. It took me only more than a month to memorize the Kana (and I felt really relaxed when learning it), while it was annoying like hell when I tried to memorize how to read Chinese Pinyin. Moreover, simplified Chinese characters don't describe the meaning of words as good as Kanji or traditional Chinese characters do. This is why I could retain more words when studying Kanji compared to when I studied Chinese. My first language is Vietnamese, a language that is heavily influenced by Chinese, and yet I still find it very difficult to pronounce Chinese words, while pronouncing Japanese is much more relaxed, not to mention that my English and Japanese were degrading while I was attending the Chinese class, lol.
Anyway, you just have to be patient and have self-discipline and you'll gradually be able to learn Japanese. I can assure you for that.