[evanny]

my friend went for chinese i went for japanese. she says that it is not hard. once you learn the tones then there is not much left to do but to simply memorise kanji.
well...in japanese. like every week i learn some 5 new grammar rules (for a year now) and that is the hard part. like when you speak to someone - first you try to remember what was what - ～かもしれません、なくちゃいけません、たらどうです 、ほうがいいです。。。。。。well you get the point - unless you know the forms you won't understand anything, knowing vocabulary won't help.