<p>[Graceful_Spirit], ur kiddin.</p>
<p>I’m not.</p>
<p>If you want me to clarify something, just say so. :)</p>
<p>I’d say Spanish for most people, but if you plan to visit,do business in, or study in France, then take French.</p>
<p>Are you for serious saying Japanese grammar is easy? </p>
<p>And who cares if they weren’t “created” for that. They use it that way. Oh well, deal. If you don’t wanna learn it, then don’t. </p>
<p>Also, there are words which can’t be expressed Kanji. Such was particles or forms of verbs. So Hiragana is basically awesome. </p>
<p>Maybe where you’re learning it they dont’ emphasize on linguistics of it all. It’s quite amazing how one particle can mean “but” and “and.”</p>
<p>Omg. That sentece was so wrong I wanted to stab it. </p>
<p>Chinese Grammar and Language is not similar to Japanese. Get it through your heads people. </p>
<p>Watashiwa basketoboru ga suki desu.</p>
<p>Umm. I’m learnign Japanese they way it should be taught apparently. Which is, you learn the hiragana first…then katakana…finally kanji. I mean, it’s hard to learn grammar patterns >< because it’s so different from indo european languages. Learning romanji is kinda ■■■■■■■■ because you’re making yourself only audible but not literate.</p>
<p>Trying to learn Japanese from a book written in roomaji is, in my opinion, the worst way to learn the language. The most effective method for me was to learn how to write and recognize the hiragana while learning some basic phrases in roomaji. And then do an immersion thing where after you learned all the hiragana, replace all roomaji with the actual hiragana (except for phrases written in katakana), and write in tiny letters above the hiragana how to pronounce it. After a few weeks, I mastered the hiragana enough to not need the tiny letters. After the hiragana, I started on some basic kanji’s and katakanas." </p>
<p>Exactly. ^^</p>
<p>Excuse me? Was there anything in my posts that implied my dislike to learn the language?</p>
<p>I find it funny that you say my teachers don’t emphasize on linguistics, yet you are apparently ignorant of the history behind the creation of the writing systems, or seem to have missed me poking fun of one of my classmates.</p>
<p>I actually can understand Japanese some, but can’t read very well. I just started by listening to anime + dramas + and songs whenever i could… I guess the first step you should take is learning the characters. I hate memroizing because my memory is that of an 80 year old lady… so. i just started listening instead.</p>
<p>They say chinese gets easier as you learn and japanese gets harder as you learn so beaware of that before you learn anything…</p>
<p>Reading just with japanese hiragana is apprantly quite difficult (that was one of the things japanese book hating on the korean people was talking about… how can they read with just hiragana like characters?) i don’t think kanji’s going to go away, but korean works quite fine without chinese… I can’t read old books though so i gotta get somebody else to read for me… cough;;</p>
<p>No no! Sorry. I thought you attacked me of being dumb for not thinking the grammar was easy! So I attacked you. And I realized the sentence was wrong. I wanted to stab IT not you. Lol. Umm, and I knew about the writing system, but it hardly matters, right? It’s how it’s used NOW. </p>
<p>Anywhoo, apologies for misconceptions. But Japanese grammar is indeed xcore hard once you get to a certain level. Maybe it’s my Western mind.</p>
<p>Any grammar is hard to master, unless you just stick with writing simple sentences. On a sidenote, I know English, Bengali, Hindi and some Spanish. Hence, I can communicate with a lot of niggas.</p>
<p>I expressed my opinions about the difficulty/ease of Japanese grammar, and I said what my classmates thought of it. I don’t attack people of their opinions because people think differently and their strengths were different.</p>
<p>I personally think learning the history of a language is important because how it is used now may be different from how it will be used in the future. Knowing the changes and how the language has transformed will allow smoother translations from the “old” language to the “new” language.</p>
<p>I mean, think about it. Who actually understands olde English?</p>
<p>Nah. It’s not that important. I mean, sure it’s interesting, but not really important in speaking the language. I apologize for the attacks. </p>
<p>Anywhoo. The point is, Japanese is hard to Westerners. Moreso than Chinese, because of the complex grammar patterns. </p>
<p><333 particles.</p>
<p>Oh no, i wasn’t saying grammar was easy (especially for people who are used to english… that would be hell) i was saying korean people would have easier time learning japanese the grammar is similiar.</p>
<p>One day i might be fluent in korean, english, and japanese. HA i wish.</p>
<p>O btw, old english doesn’t even look like english… (squigly lines, apprantly according to my eng teacher) middle english is really bazaar… (Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote…I had to memorize the whole thing… it was annoying.) and since Shakespear english is actuallly considered modern english, you can see we can’t even understand modern english sometimes…</p>
<p>[I mean, think about it. Who actually understands olde English?]</p>
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<li>my english teacher…he understands too much…its scary…</li>
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<p>he took a random line form Macbeth and realated to Odeipus the King, Greek Methology, Roman Methology and dozens of articles we read. its scary.</p>
<p>that’s stupid if someone takes french just because it’s “sexy”. I recommend Spanish since everyone speaks it</p>
<p>wouldn’t it be funny if we were require to learn old english before graduating? i’d die doing that.</p>
<p>my dream=> to speak every language fluently…haha impossible!</p>
<p>What does that have to do with Old English? </p>
<p>MacBeth =/= Old English</p>
<p>Hmm… right now I’m learning some French for amusement. Quite pretty. In my opinion, it seems really easy, except for pronunciation. I can’t sound nasally when I speak it. </p>
<p>Russian sounds very homely, if you ask me. Very maternal.</p>
<p>I tried teaching myself Japanese but it was too hard. Right now, I think I’m going to learn Arabic and Russian in college.
Nobody wants to learn Vietnamese?</p>