I think everyone (Latin based language speakers) is tricking themselves into thinking learning languages like Japanese is “super hard category IV” or whatever because this shit is easy, I think it’s because most English speakers especially haven’t played the first dragon quest game and don’t know how to grind to level up and defeat king dragon so they don’t have the resolve or understanding that “takes a long time” doesn’t mean the same thing as “difficult”
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I’m Ruby｡ I’m roughly 20 apples tall
ルビーです。背がりんごを20つぐらいです。
I drew my profile pic and banner. The gameplay in the banner is from dragon quest 1 for game boy that I recorded myself.
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Biggest barrier is frankly learning a new set of characters, a task my brain has not attempted since the Unown in Pokemon Silver and is very unused to.
Yeah I think maybe this is where I’m like an edge case because it only took me a couple of hours to memorize hiragana and katakana but I can understand why it might be difficult for others to pick up, kanji though like you just pick up over time which I’m still not very far into at all because there’s so many, I’m starting actual college courses for Japanese in august though which should help with vocab pickup and conversation practice I hope, but yeah idk the best time to start is now!!! If you’re learning Japanese specifically and get into it feel free to hit me up for help/practice
I think language learning is pretty differently hard for different people. I personally seem to be quite good at learning most things but building a large mental database of memorized data points is not my strong suit, so vocabulary building and weird grammar exceptions make language learning in general quite difficult. I already struggle pretty bad with French with has the benefit of a ton of English cognates and relatively similar sentence structure, and I'm pretty sure if I had to deal with kanji it would destroy me.
All that said, yes, it's definitely just a matter of hours spent one way or another. It's just that the hour commitment can vary a lot depending on learning style.