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Ok so you know how if you're English it's impossible to learn arabic, japanese, chinese, ect ect? Yea, that applies in both directions.
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Do you speak English and were raised in an English speaking country? The reason it's "one of the easiest to learn" is because you were exposed to it all your life. Learning English as a second language you would have trouble converting pronouns and with sentence structure because almost all other languages reverse sentence structure from English (for sure true in a large number of languages including German, French, Japanese and Chinese). I can't begin to explain what is wrong with English as compared to other languages but, unless you speak and write another language, you will have a hard time learning another language because things get reversed.
The difficulty of a language to learn depends entirely on your native language and what you've already learned from cultural context.
Despite reconstruction, Japanese and English are still mostly alien to each other since they do not share a common linguistical root. For example pretty much all the European languages derive huge amounts of their vocab (and syntax) from latin. If a German or Spanish person were to try and learn English it would be much easier to learn than Chinese or Japanese since English is a weird mishmash of all the other Latin derived languages. They share many words and the sentence structure is very often similar. All of that changes for Chinese and Japanese. Chinese and Japanese are derived from some sino- tibetan root that predates written language (I think, I'm not an expert, but I know its not latin). To make matters worse, china and japan were literally as far from Rome as it was possible to be at the time and they had almost no direct trade so their cultures were almost entirely isolated from each other until Marco Polo wrote about China and the Portuguese missionaries settled in Japan.
All this to say, English is not inherently difficult to learn - its just harder for people from asian cultural spheres to learn.
Despite reconstruction, Japanese and English are still mostly alien to each other since they do not share a common linguistical root. For example pretty much all the European languages derive huge amounts of their vocab (and syntax) from latin. If a German or Spanish person were to try and learn English it would be much easier to learn than Chinese or Japanese since English is a weird mishmash of all the other Latin derived languages. They share many words and the sentence structure is very often similar. All of that changes for Chinese and Japanese. Chinese and Japanese are derived from some sino- tibetan root that predates written language (I think, I'm not an expert, but I know its not latin). To make matters worse, china and japan were literally as far from Rome as it was possible to be at the time and they had almost no direct trade so their cultures were almost entirely isolated from each other until Marco Polo wrote about China and the Portuguese missionaries settled in Japan.
All this to say, English is not inherently difficult to learn - its just harder for people from asian cultural spheres to learn.
Actually for Japanese specifically it's because that lots of what they write is context-sensitive, so the pronouns aren't in there for auto-translators to pick up on, so it defaults to "he" instead, as that's the """default""" pronoun in English.
Though you are right about English being hard, besides it being 3 languages in a trenchcoat (Celtic, (old)German, French) and then went around and mugged all other languages for spare vocab; it also does adjective-noun different from 90% of all others, with adj-noun while say Spanish or Chinese would do noun-adj.
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english is my second language. my alphabet isn't even remotely based on latin. english is easy because even if you formulate sentences incorrectly due to its simplistic nature people still will be able to intuit what you were trying to say. i do not know of other languages that can allow such... flexibility, lets say. for most others it'd be gibberish or even an insult.
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I hope it's completely uncensored..haven't played it much, just a quick check.
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+side of english, not having to remember the gender of every single word. hated that when i was learning german.