Re: Japanese learning, is anybody as frustrated as me?
From: Sean Holland (seanpantsholland_at_telus.pants.net)
Date: 11/25/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:14:10 GMT
robert wrote:
> ivan.codesido@ukonline.co.uk (Frustrated) wrote in message news:<8484b71.0411240949.2b4f8bf5@posting.google.com>...
>
> <snip everything>
>
> To be honest, I think this legendary difficulty of the Japanese
> language is a bit overrated, especially on forums like this one. I am
> assuming (I have to be careful) this is because most of you are native
> English speakers.
>
> I would like to know if people from countries with multiple official
> languages, not including English, feel the same way about this.
>
> A typical Belgian 18 year-old can express him/herself in 3 languages
> (Dutch, French and English), some also German. Now, I admit that
> Japanese is more difficult for me than Dutch, English or French. But
> for me it's certainly easier than German.
>
> I'd like to hear other people's opinion on this.
>
> Rob
>
> PS I have to admit I am still very much a beginner compared to the
> original poster (and probably to most other posters around here
> too...)
I took German for a couple of months in high school. I decided that the
German verb and I were never going to see eye to eye, so I dropped the
course.
I don't think folks in this ng spread the idea that Japanese is more
difficult that other languages. However, if you are going from Dutch to
English or French to Spanish or something like that, you're going to
have a much easier time. At the very least, you don't have to learn a
new writing system, just some twists on the system you've know since
childhood. Again, you aren't going to get the help of cognates when you
come from an Indo-European background to Japanese. So, for those
reasons, there are extra challenges for the Indo-European. It isn't that
there is anything inherently difficult about Japanese.
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