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Phonetically it’s a pain, but grammatically it is very regular and logical if explained well.

• rjh29 4y ago
  It's like all the complexity went into kanji. Pronounciation of -kana- is mostly regular. Grammar - 2-3 main verb types with a VERY small conjugation table to learn, no plurals, no genders. You can take a mostly complete sentence and whack it on top of a noun to make it describe the noun, or add stuff to the end to qualify its meaning, in a much more simple way than English. I hate grammar and I found that part of the language to be extremely simple.
  • Anon1096 4y ago
    You start having problems when you learn about registers and how there's basically a second (or third!) set of words depending on who you're talking to.
    • rjh29 4y ago
      It's great fun looking up the keigo versions of words though. Even native speakers have a hard time with it.