You'll have some fun with Japanese. This was my main language of study in college. All I can say is that IMO it's by no means an easy language to learn. Learning to speak it is one thing.., but learning to read and write it.., man oh man will it have you scratching your head at times. Plus learning the customs as well is interesting. Such as the difference in how you greet your friends, and how you greet an elder. The Japanese culture is strict on "respect" (like many of the Asian cultures)....

If you speak english.., learning other languages like Spanish, Italian, French, and so on aren't so bad because at least you're still using the same alphabet (with some minor variations).., but when you get into the Asian languages it's a WHOLE'NOTHER WORLD!

Yes..., in Japanese you'll learn 3 alphabets. Those are the Katakana, Hiragana, and the Kanji. The first one (Katakana) is a very simplistic form of Japanese text.., and one of the things this alphabet is used for is to write words that are not native to the Japanese language. So right there you can get an idea.... With enlgish we at least can use the same alphabet (even for non-native words), but the Japanese have a whole separate alphabet reserved for that!

Learning to write and read these alphabets is a challenge

How's this for irony..., my Japanese instructors name was Yuki.. There's also another variation of that name which is Yumi Both of these are very common female names in Japan.



[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 11-21-2008).]