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Originally Posted by Seanus
Being humble also helps. Many Japanese are but in a different way. I've taught people from many nations and they are not as afraid as making mistakes as Japanese people were. You have to experiment and roll the dice with language. Sometimes you'll be right and sometimes you'll be wrong. Only God doesn't play with dice, or so Einstein would have us believe  |
I've had encounters with many people trying their English on me from visiting many countries. And I don't know what kind of Japanese you met, but the Japanese I knew were just as eager, with plenty of mistakes (they tried!) to try their English with me too.
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Originally Posted by Amoni
Isn't Japanese one of the hardest languages to learn? I know the grammar stumps me haha. I still have barely gotten into the Kana  I use books most of the time and lots of writing it out. It is working for me... Though having someone to speak it with would help  I think the trick is just really wanting to learn it.
I agree yusuke speaking it is the best way in my opinion but alas I am all alone here with my learning Japanese... haha. Sorry dry humor...
I also would love a learning group or something but I am not to great with lots of people. I do better one on one or with maybe two or three people. |
About Japanese being one of the hardest languages to learn, I've heard this before, but I have to disagree. I am talking about the spoken language. To me, the grammar is as straight forward as can be and can be well learned in a matter of weeks. Then the words are mainly just fill-in-the-blanks. Just like any other language, it becomes rote memorization after that. Of course, you will need to learn more in person to sound natural, but that's no different from any other language. Reading it is another story...
Though it's hard to say being a native speaker of English myself, I'd say that English is probably a good deal more difficult to learn than Japanese. English is far more critical and quite inconsistent.