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How much time have you spent in Japan???? I can guarantee that they aren't as bad to foreigners as you claim, clueless as to where you even got that idea from. They are pretty friendly people.
You can go do a quick Google search and read multiple blogs about people who've traveled there and loved it and the people there as well.
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For every website out there touting how wonderful it is, there are plenty of others who do not agree.
They are hospitable, sure, but they are more subtle about the things that get on their nerves, and their culture reinforces politeness so they don't often get in your face about it or anything. But it's still there, just like it is in any other country.
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Posted by Colin
The language isn't "very difficult" either, most people just make that assumption because it's their first time seeing a language style like that. It's exactly like learning another language, start from the bottom with the beginner stuff and keep slowly advancing and it's very easy to understand.
People saying it's difficult would most likely struggle with learning other languages as well, some people are just good with this sort of stuff and others aren't.
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What did I
just say?
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Posted by Draenin
after you learn all the basic stuff, it all just becomes learning vocabulary words
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Posted by Draenin
Most high school students in Japan know about 10,000 different characters on average.
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(Fun fact: I was wrong about that figure. 2,000 Kanji and 10,000 words is about how much students know
by their last year of university studies.
However, there is no definitive amount of Kanji out there.)
Believe it or not, in literally any language, a wide range of vocabulary words still takes a long time to learn. You can say stuff like, "Oh, well some people just get it and some don't," but the fact of the matter is that their language also involves a multitude of different symbols tied to words and ideas instead of just a basic alphabet like most other countries use, and that adds complexity to the process of learning. Hiragana and Katakana are easy to learn, but when you get into Kanji, it's a lot of hardcore memorization.
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