>English is easy to understand, hard to master. So, like, any other langauge with a literary tradition? >I did not say he stole the money. i DID not say he st

>English is easy to understand, hard to master. So, like, any other langauge with a literary tradition? >I did not say he stole the money. i DID not say he stole the money. i did NOT say he stole the money. i did not SAY he stole the money. i did not say HE stole the money. i did not say he STOLE the money. i did not say he stole THE money. i did not say he stole the MONEY. No person who knows a SAE language would be confused by this, they would probably understand the meaning naturally without it even being explained to them as a rule. >Chinese and Arabic are different. They are different because of the written form. Folks feel the same about Japanese Learning a writing system takes like 2 weeks at most, it is a drop in the bucket considering that you would need ~88 weeks to be professionally proficient in Japanese compared to, say, ~24 weeks for Spanish. >Folks feel the same about Japanese, till they see it written out with roman letters. While lots of sentences that sound natural in Spanish may sound almost as natural in English, one-to-one Japanese translation would sound completely off and vice versa.