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Chinese or Japanese: which is easier?
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Randwulf
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30 July 2013 at 12:29am | IP Logged

I'm only about 25 hours into Japanese so take this with a grain of salt but so far I'm
finding the grammar to be refreshingly easy (after an abortive attempt at Russian as my
comparison). Putting the verb at the end of the sentence is very similar, almost
identical actually, to how subordinate clauses in German work, so that's not giving me
the slightest bit of trouble. As far as declining nouns, that doesn't seem that bad
either, with the noun's phonetics having no influence on how it's declined (I hate you,
Russian). The only place I know of that's tricky in that respect is the conjugation of
informal verbs. But formal is a cinch. The free-form placement of sentence parts is a
little tricky but I'm not finding it particularly bad either.

What makes Japanese grammar difficult? I've seen people mention some of the above stuff
but I'm doing well with it all so far. It's quite possible I just have yet to come
across the hard stuff.

Edited by Randwulf on 30 July 2013 at 12:30am

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