<p>^Why do you think Japanese is easier?</p>
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<p>That’s the ranking of the difficulty of languages for native English speakers, by the Foreign Service Institute. They actually claim Japanese is the hardest to learn of all the major languages. Korean, Japanese, and Chinese are all in the hardest category, but Japanese has the distinction of being even harder than the others in that category (the asterisk next to it on that page).</p>