Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (March 11, 2024)

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1. I just want to say briefly I am pretty upset about people gassing up Japanese as being this insanely hard language to learn. It kept me from trying to learn it for years.

   IRL, once I started learning, it’s not that hard. It has it’s weird quirks, but like every other language it’s just mainly memorization and practice, that’s it.

   A short list of things that people said were “super hard” about Japanese that aren’t:

   * pitch accent | ( there are only two pitches, why is this hard for anyone, so easy to hear )… Chinese has 4 (plus a null pitch), Vietnamese has 6. Pitch isn’t even important for meaning in most cases in Japanese.
   * hiragana / katakana | oh no… “tWo aLpHaBeTs”, dude, you can learn it in 4 days
   * keigo | polite form is actually easier than standard japanese, but again, it’s just a memorization exercise
   * kanji | it’s just Chinese characters, but less than half as many as Chinese, so another basic, memorization exercise
   * high context language | so is English, so what?

   Honestly, I’m pissed about this because people gassing up Japanese as this “super hard” language (maybe to boost their own ego after they learned some of it) keeps people from trying. If I hadn’t been fed the lie of “Japanese super hard!” I probably would have learned it years ago. Mad that I got gaslit for years into not learning a language that is super fun, pretty easy, and produces a majority of the entertainment that I enjoy.

   /rant

2. what’d he say?

   [https://vocaroo.com/1bDuMhdcQ9vK](https://vocaroo.com/1bDuMhdcQ9vK)

   __no owari sugu kaetta

3. > いよいよ、それらしくなってきた。

   What is しくなってきた?

   Context: Someone has played a video game a lot and done a good job with it, and has to quit for the day and thinks that.