>>3725712Well then there's my point though, you do need to learn it to be able to effectively read an communicate in Japanese, and there are over 1000 characters in it. Hence the difficulty of the language for native European language speakers. In the US military Russian and Arabic are considered extremely difficult, classed as a stage 3 language on a 4 stage system, with a 4th stage language being the hardest and a 1st stage language being the easiest, Japanese and Chinese are both 4th stage languages in the US military translation system (even more difficult than Russian and Arabic).
