>>256434374Especially when the main adversaries have the advantage of either already knowing a variation of the harder part of reading, or speak a language grammatically similar, making learning easy.
A main disadvantage of Japanese for keeping away outsiders is the easy of pronunciation (if you're not French or American, and therefor can't pronounce anything you're not used to).
>>256434665To a german English basically sounds like German with the addition of a bit of spitting "th" and having food stuffed in your cheeks.