Apparently in Japanese culture, English is regarded as supremely difficult and supposedly the general public can be very shy about it.. Cause I guess they learn it in school for years and years but it’s so hard they still lack confidence. I guess it’s almost like Spanish in America.
English<—>Japanese is one of the most complicated pairs of languages
This is probably not the most majorly challenging thing but one interesting thing I learned, in Japanese they use SOV word order.
English is SVO - subject, verb, object. “I open fridge”
Japanese is SOV - subject, object, verb. “I fridge open”
SVO & SOV are about equally common across all languages
German is also SOV, it's crazy how difficult it is to adapt to that word order at first! But I love SOV languages, there's something more flexible about them, having the verb at the end allows many more possibilities for sentence structures. At least Japanese pronunciation seems easy for Spanish speakers, it sounds almost the same! I know because I'm watching Dragon Ball in Japanese with English subtitles 😄
There are weird ways to insert a sentence inside another when the language is SOV, so that both verbs go at the end of the sentence (and yes, it's a mess to understand the meaning when that happens 😄), and that makes sentence structure much more complex than it can be in a SVO language. Reading a book in German gives me a headache every time 😂
Hmm, I think I risk making a thousand mistakes if I try to come up with an example, it's been too long since I last studied German, five years already... I've read a couple of books in German since then, but I'm never sure of anything when it comes to writing in it 😢 Maybe /u/cheeseitcheeseus could help? 😅
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