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I am finding it oddly easier to learn Japanese than Swedish.
No idea what this says about my brain.
@garius What technique are you using to learn it?
@garius I started learning Japanese in my twenties. After one year I found I could say more in Japanese than I could in Welsh, a language I’d been taking lessons in since I was 6, was surrounded by on a daily basis, and watched on TV. The words just stuck better.
@garius Easier pronunciation?
@garius my understanding is that Japanese is an extremely regular language? Like classical Latin level of regular. If you're a person who does best by learning the rules and then applying them, I guess that may be a factor?
@garius I gave up on Japanese when I hit counting things. I couldn't remember all the post-number modifiers.
@garius - you've grown up watching more anime than Nordic noir?
@garius I’ve been doing Japanese on Duolingo for awhile now and I remember being really excited when I figured out that you can simply sound out words in hiragana.
@sharris see the interesting thing there is that i went:
"i don't know most of that sentence. But I know please is kudasai. And I've learnt the hiragana for "sa" and "i" so far, so can I spot kudasai in this?"
And I reckon it's the word at the end?
@garius Correct! I often find the grammar is quite instinctive, but I struggle to know where to put the prepositions such as を and に. The sentence says broken air conditioner を (like to…?) fix please. I’d struggle to pronounce it though.
@garius you need to forget everything you learned from@the Muppets, it’s not helping.
@garius Including the writing system?