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  • the grammatical structure (subject + object + verb)

    50 16.03%
  • the particules (wa, ga, wo, ni...)

    98 31.41%
  • memorizing the vocabulary (too different from other languages)

    79 25.32%
  • the untranslatable cultural words (irasshaimase, ojama shimasu...)

    51 16.35%
  • the verbs forms (-rareru, -te, -ttara...)

    84 26.92%
  • the politeness levels (keigo...)

    98 31.41%
  • the writing (especially the kanji)

    167 53.53%
  • understanding katakana words

    33 10.58%
  • the pronuciation

    18 5.77%
  • other (non listed, please specify)

    23 7.37%
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    Nihongo Learner hkBattousai's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by ShimizuChiaki View Post
    The writing is not hard to me especially that I am learning Chinese.
    Does Chinese have more kanji than Japanese? Do they have same kanjis?
    Me too wanna learn Chinese in the future, will I have to learn more kanji for it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hkBattousai View Post
    Does Chinese have more kanji than Japanese? Do they have same kanjis?
    Me too wanna learn Chinese in the future, will I have to learn more kanji for it?
    uh... let's say you want to read a newspaper... for japanese around 1500-2000 are enough... for chinese i think you need 4000+ characters... as the language doesn't have anything except the hanzi... and there's the problem (at least my biggest problem) with the pronounciation...

    @vote:
    I voted "others" as I don't have a problem with any of these (anymore) but that wasn't possible to answer translating sometimes gives me a hard time... I don't like sentences that go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and ...

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