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Originally Posted by Risukopi

Hi there.

I know you guys are studying Japanese quite hard, and do you have any points that you particulaly feel hard about learning/using Japanese ?


I would like to ask this question as a Japanese teacher.

I notice that yet there are not many good textbooks for Japanese language .
So even it is harder to teach with those texts. Mostly they are bizarre sentences, not natural for daily use, and not so efficient. Plus some of them are 100% in roman ji.

I am teaching Japanese to Europian kids, who are not familer with Kanjis at all and sometimes we have to use roman-ji text books. Its okay for a while for the debutants, but finally they need to know the kanjis -but it seems they are not willing to do so.

Because I believe learning and knowing the language means you can write, read , listen and speak. Like, it is not good if you learn Russian without Russian alphabet because it is not real Russian you are going to use...you see what I mean.

Anyway , about Japanese language...what makes it hard to study?


For example, English for Japanese people, I feel they are quite good at writing and spelling (not me sorry) English, also reading , but they are espacially not good at speaking and expressing themselves, plus there is so much to work on pronounciation. (R and L , V and B etc)


So it was an example.
How about for you, learning Japanese which part you feel most dificult about?


Thanks for your opinion

Katakana is by far the toughest thing for me. I never know if the foreign word is from English or another language. Kana is so prevalent in written Japanese that I feel illiterate without a strong command of it. I feel like I am expected to know the words but the pronunciation is very different I remember hearing or reading aluminum or refrigerator for the first time in Japanese and I was stumped looking aimlessly through my dictionary while my Japanese friend looked confused.