Feb 04 2012, 12:00 AM
joker8baller Wrote:Essays were 5-10 pages -.<Wow. So you're one of those guys that can get through essays really fast :o (I can't really do that)
Were they detailed, or rushed?
leo Wrote:You made a lot of sense really, the writing forms seem like they would take effort to get used to, oh, and the linguistic differences between languages can be really interesting.. Ever thought of visiting Japan?silly Wrote:Hahaha, nice. Maybe I'm more easily distracted than you? I can imagine wasting a lot of time playing css when I don't have time to waste! Japanese? Ooo, hard?
The Japanese language really isn't that hard in some ways. It's a very structured language and easy to pronounce in general (speaking a certain dialect can be kinda difficult to learn though).
What's difficult about it foremost is the written system. They use two phonetic alphabets called kana and Chinese characters called kanji. The alphabets aren't hard to learn, just takes some time. The kanji though, ugh. 1000 characters at least to fairly literate; 2000 to be high school literate. Those characters almost always have at least 2-3 different ways of being pronounced as well. So that's a bitch to learn.
Kanji aside, "counters" are difficult to memorize. Since Japanese doesn't use plurals, they refer to things in quantities. The only way I can describe this is like stacking "3 sticks of gum" in English. You don't ever say 3 gums, you say sticks. Sticks would be a counter. They have a ton of these for all sorts of things like flat paper-like objects, cylindrical objects, etc.
Other than that, Japanese isn't too bad. Honestly, I'd find it hard to learn most other languages out there. Japanese pronunciation is so straight forward it makes that part easy.
George, Of The Jungle Wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clu9uNvzA3M[/youtube]Thanks man ;D
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