'Japanese is by far more complex when it comes to writing systems. English is more difficult to speak for sure.I think Japanese is one of the hardest languages to gain fluency in writing and reading.'
Japanese rarely use more than 2000 kanji. Japanese is not nearly as hard to learn to read/write as chinese is, which uses ONLY kanji symbols. (No shortcuts by using syllabaries). My wife is chinese and says she knows upwards of 8000 kanji. So you could say that japanese is twice as easy to learn as chinese. And don't even get my started on their crazy tones and pronunciation. I'm trying to learn both, and japanese is a breeze in comparison. So chin up and think, "At least it's not chinese!". :)
'Japanese is by far more
'Japanese is by far more complex when it comes to writing systems. English is more difficult to speak for sure.I think Japanese is one of the hardest languages to gain fluency in writing and reading.'
Japanese rarely use more than 2000 kanji. Japanese is not nearly as hard to learn to read/write as chinese is, which uses ONLY kanji symbols. (No shortcuts by using syllabaries). My wife is chinese and says she knows upwards of 8000 kanji. So you could say that japanese is twice as easy to learn as chinese. And don't even get my started on their crazy tones and pronunciation. I'm trying to learn both, and japanese is a breeze in comparison. So chin up and think, "At least it's not chinese!". :)