Hey hey! Name's Elizabeth. I'm a 14 year old with a life long goal that a friend and I share to go… - Feed Post by LiZZiE_B618
Hey hey! Name's Elizabeth. I'm a 14 year old with a life long goal that a friend and I share to go to Japan one day! People say learning Japanese is really hard, but I think it's actually easier than made out to be. And it's a really cool language too!
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Study hard :) and yes it is very cool
How much Japanese do you know? I'd be surprised to hear someone who has a high level of competency say that Japanese is not a really hard language, especially coming from a Western language.
I started studying around 13, but I kinda stopped for a bit after complicated stuff happened and my Japanese is back at 0. I'd like to go to Japan with a buddy too!- Japanese can be fun to learn, but even during the fun bits, I doubt I'd ever say it's... easy.
Learning any foreign language is a difficult task, especially after your younger formative years where it's easier to learn learn languages. But there are shortcuts here and there for learning Japanese:
- It's arguably the easiest of the East Asian languages for a Western speaker to understand at a basic level. It has limited sounds and a few similarities to Spanish pronunciation
- kana writing is fairly quick and easy to learn
- The learning curve for kanji is steep at first, but it levels out after you learn enough of the common-use characters. The ideographic system makes it easier to memorize new kanji after you get used to the writing.
It's not "easy" at all, but I think it's developed a reputation of being insanely difficult and intimidating, which isn't incredibly accurate.- That's likely due to people saying such things during the initial encounters with kanji.
At home right the stuff you learned then go over it
If you work on it, you will learn it :) Peoples who say its "really hard" never learned it in the first place probably. They say that probably due to new characters(kana). It is fun to learn it, especially those "complicated" characters(kanji) which for some seems like some random lines :D
I've learned quite a bit in the past few months. Like I have learned most of the basic greetings. To me it's pretty easy, because I'm interested in in. It's a language I really want to learn. No, it's not 100% easy, but hey, it's still fun!
