New Language: Chinese or Japanese

[Luzion]

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Luzion's post is VERY biased, since he is a already a native chinese speaker, so take his advice with a grain of salt.

The fact of the matter is that Chinese is much harder to learn than Japanese. When it comes to pronunciation, there are a lot more subtleties that you wouldn't be able to pick up as an adult because it's past your critical period for language development. An incorrect pronunciation of a syllable could change a word's entire meaning. And not to mention the written language is nuts.

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Whoa whoa... I never said Chinese was easy; in fact mentioned that Chinese WAS harder then Japanese as I said here...

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I dont know how you can say Japanese is an easy language at all. Its one of the hardest imo, though definintely not as hard as Chinese.

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My post was to refute the point that people said Japanese is "easy." It is not easy, but definitely not as hard as Chinese of course. Just remember that no one has countered my point about the differing levels of "politeness" that native Japanese use. You'll probably be learning how to speak overly polite Japanese and might not understand when someone speaks to you in other "styles" of Japanese...




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