Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
I just posted it cause the comment reminded me of it not because I thought you were saying you knew japanese cause you had a japanese girlfriend.

Honestly, the hardest thing about learning the language is just unlearning things you already know... oh and the fact their are like a dozen different ways to count objects numerically and you need to actually know them as the words changed depending upon what object you are counting...
I know. Just making sure.

Meh, it is interesting that they name the days of the month, but to be blunt with you, can there really be anything worse than the conjugation of the French verbs?

I think some people are just more or less inclined to certain languages. So far, I'm finding Japanese being of a more or less average difficulty (language nr. 7 for me). The Hiragana and Katakana aren't particularly difficult and the Kanji just need long hours of practice. The grammar is also a little different, but there are few things that can scare you after German indirect speech. It's really quite okay. Now learning French... uh... I hated it from the very beginning all the way to the final examination. I'm just glad it's over now.

Quote Originally Posted by riallews View Post
haha!I love that essay! If anything its made me want to learn it more lol. Learning japanese is a thought that got stuck in my head when i was a teenager. It hasn't left since, and it was the reason I got into anime in the first place. Wonder if I'll ever actually do it... bleh. itll probably stay on my to-do list till im too old to care :P
You really only need four things. A book, a dictionary, a set of CDs to listen too and a flatrate DSL connection to download the anime.