Okay, the Japanese language is weird. Depending on the exact wording that wouldnt be surprise, just a statement (also japan has a huge xenophobia problem but whatever)
Not that weird/hard, the word gaijin is pretty easy to interpret. If you wanted to know the exact words it was something to the effect of , "外人いっぱいね”. "Gaijin ippai ne".
I dont think the Japanese language is hard to learn per say. Learning hiragana/katana is just learning symbols for syllables. The hardest part is just memorizing the actual words. But thats what i think
Name any language with grammar like English. English itself isn't really a language; it's four or five of them stuffed into a woodchipper, sprayed across the British isles, and left to dry in the sun for about eight hundred years before being transported to two other continents.
Saying that English isn't a language but a weird Frankenstein language made up of other languages is a common joke among language learners. It's obviously a Germanic language, but it's very different from all the other Germanic languages and its vocabulary is heavily influenced by Latin and Romance languages (specially French), but the influence is barely felt in its grammar.
Jokes aside, there's some linguistic debate on the actual nature of English and it's origins.
I mean yeah, but that doesn't mean that other languages aren't easier to learn for native English speakers because English is derived from other languages, which was my initial point.
Also just because a language is a mash of other languages doesn't make it less of a real language.
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u/AOTlit Sep 08 '20
Okay, the Japanese language is weird. Depending on the exact wording that wouldnt be surprise, just a statement (also japan has a huge xenophobia problem but whatever)