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| quote: | Originally posted by Yan
Japanese is easy. I'm learning it right now and it's nowhere near as hard as Russian.
All that's challenging is memorizing the different kanji. |
Erm, not really.
Despite of the exceptions, Russian conjugation of nouns, adjectives and verbs is by no means harder than the Japanese conjugation of adjective, verbs and the extensive use of particles. Oh, and Japanese has a more complex way of addressing people.
First of all, Russian has a strictly smaller amount of time tenses (if you don't count perfective and imperfective verbs as being the same thing, every verb has, at most, 2 forms), whereas there are 5 or 6 forms for every Japanese verb (not counting the suffixes, so I'm counting "kaite", "kaita" and "kaki" as the same form of the verb "kaku"). The only feature of Russian verbs that is more complex than Japanese verb conjugation is naturally, the persons (whereas you have only "kakimasu" in formal Japanese, for example, you'd have "pishu", "pishet" and all the other forms). That could be explained by a completely different use of pronouns in Japanese.
As for the adjective conjugation, Japanese does conjugate adjectives as well, and it is in fact more complex than Russian conjugation because not only you conjugate the case (most adjectives in Japanese are actually adjective verbs) but the time tense.
Finally, the noun conjugation is a bit tricky. In a very strict sense, you can consider the particles as noun suffixes, which would remind a foreign student of that padezh thing in Russian. So "ya cobaky vizhu" and "Cobaka menya videt" could be considered analogue to "(watashi wa) inu wo mitte iru" and "Inu wa watashi wo mitte iru".
Obviously, there are things about Russian language that are more complex than their Japanese counterpart (such as phonology), but it's not accurate to say that a certain language is harder than another. They're completely different things.
| quote: | Originally posted by Yan
Otherwise, Chinese is the hardest if you plan on the memorizing the thousands of dialects. |
I'm trying to understand what someone would do this for: once you learn the national dialect, you might want to learn a regional dialect (which can be as different as another language), but not only you can't count them all as being a single language (for studying purposes)... and this is mostly optional.
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