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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
You don't need to be a millionaire. I give you good deal long time 
I learned Japanese for the sake of travelling. I always make it a point to learn as much of a native language as I can before I travel there, and I was in Tokyo for 2 weeks in 2006. I went to Japanese because I'm into Japanese anime and music heh.
Japanese isn't bad. Easier than Cantonese or Mandarin. Technically, there are only two tones in Japanese, as opposed to the 7 and 4 in Cantonese and Mandarin. Plus there's only two tenses: past and present. If you know Chinese, Japanese isn't too bad because a lot of the sentence structure is similar. Conjugations are pretty simple, especially if you compare it to French. Then again, maybe it's just simple for me. I have a knack for languages. |
While I agree it's easier for western tongues due to the lack of inflection, the language is vague, which makes it a bit like an onion - easy to pick up enough to get by, but a real bugger to master.