[Phat Mack]

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So... if you cant learn to read/write Japanese because of the hard Kanji, and you cant converse with someone because its so overly complicated in how you address someone based on their age, sex, and "position" in society... how can you say its even easy?

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If you can't write kanji, you can always get by with kana.

Politeness levels are still regulary constructed--learn two or three conjugations and you've learned them all. If you don't know which to use, you can always over-polite it.

Spoken Japanese is still the nuts.

Edit: Learning to read kanji isn't that hard; learning to read it out loud is what's difficult. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]