What's the hardest part about learning Japanese?

[MMM]

Kanji is a never ending process. For me that is probably the hardest part. It also is do different then Western languages, even multi-lingual speakers have a hard time getting it down. They say it's easier for English speakers to learn Chinese than Japanese, but I don't know if that is true.

[Kasomi]

Well, I had a hard time learning the particles at first, but now it's more about finding a teacher to study more frequently. And about Chinese, I'll say that the two seems quite difficult at first, but I got Japanese faster. (I'm trying to learn Chinese as well and I have a hard time, really) I don't know for English natives, but for a French Native, both are different from the mother tongue...

[MMM]

My understanding is that gramatically, English and Chiese are structured more similarlly. Where in Japanese the word order of words in a sentence is not natural for an English speaker.

[Okashi]

For me, they were quit easy to learn. I would have to say that Kanji would be the most difficult by terms of the large number of them.

[Rogozhin]

Writing kanji and reading them as there can be two readings with kanji.

[Crelrn]

Reading Kanji is one thing; but writing it...ugh...
Though the hardest thing to learn was the grammar, for me
But once you get the SOV form down, it's a lot easier.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Rogozhin

Writing kanji and reading them as there can be two readings with kanji.

There can be a lot more than two...

[luna2]

i can learn it on my own or stuffs
but rite now
my teacher is givin me a hard time learnin it-really i dnt like her to much

[MMM]

Originally Posted by luna2

i can learn it on my own or stuffs
but rite now
my teacher is givin me a hard time learnin it-really i dnt like her to much

If you write Japanese the way you type English...

[Okashi]

There is also stroke order, type, and count when you are writing in Japanese.