Is Japanese Hard Or Easy? The Honest Take

[@ginomctony6773]

i like how you put this, your absolutely right about the "simple, but easy" i work with computers and i often get asked "how do you remember all that?!" or "how can you program things?!" and all i ever really say is "well its not that hard you just have to learn to do it" and its always met with the "naah that stuffs impossible" and hearing people say that japanese is easy and having wanting to learn since i was a kid i just decided screw it im gonna learn japanese and keep the mindset of "its easy, but not simple" which is a better way of explaining then "its easy if you learn it" lol, its only been like a week and a half and im getting the kana down, still mess them up but ive gotten the dakuten down pretty well minus the " one cause thats got 3 different variations but i figured out a way to help remember them K+"=G T+"=d ect. and it has gotten a bit easier, i read a japanese childrens book doing my best to read the kana and then checking my accuracy after. i also want to say, its not weird to watch a show with subtitles on even if you understand the language, i very often use subtitles even while watching something in english for the exact reason you said, its easy to miss things.

[@Tamagotochannel]

Thanks for watching. That really is true for almost everything, like computer programming, as you said. And with languages I feel it's even more true because it's a very basic tool, but it's just too complex for those that don't know it. Glad to know it's not only me 😅, I also use subtitles to watch English stuff. It just allows me to reach the maximum comprehension as possible.

[@gabryeldealcantara]

Estou começando agora, e no meu caso eu tentei demais começar pelo vocabulário (kanji focused) mas não sei explicar, eu não consigo focar em vocabulário pois minha cabeça sempre vai pro lado da gramática, então finalmente decidi me render à ela. No momento eu sinto que está funcionando pra mil, vou pegando os vocab conforme avanço nos temas, mas meu medo é de isso estar me atrasando ao longo prazo pois, assim como você fez, todo mundo me recomenda a construir uma base de core words e só depois ir pras nuances linguísticas… Mas bom, queria saber o que você acha disso kkkkk Foi mais um desabafo que uma pergunta, mas ainda sim uma pergunta.

[@Tamagotochannel]

Não comecei por vocabulário. Eu comecei por kanji (mas só o kanji, sem aprender leitura ou vocabulário, no método do Remembering the Kanji), daí depois disso fui tentar aprender tudo meio ao mesmo tempo e no começo foi meio ruim, então assim como você está fazendo agora, parei e fui procurar entender ao menos o básico da gramática (com o guia do Tae Kim) . E depois com essa base eu fui aprendendo mais vocabulário e estruturas , sempre voltando pro guia do Tae Kim quando necessário. Então o que eu acho disso é que tá tudo certo kkkk, você está no caminho certo :)

[@frederico-d3l]

simple, but not easy. perfect definition of japanese. at the end of the day, every lenguage has thousands of words and thats the hard thing to do. if someone tells you a lenguage is "easy".... he/she is lying to you and trying to sell you a course probably

[@Tamagotochannel]

Yes, or they reached a level when it doesn't feel so difficult anymore and forget the time when it wasn't