>>268432Basic English grammar is fairly easy and to the point, there's really nothing more to it other than conjunctions and SVO. It's why Japanese people learning English subconsciously delete a lot of auxiliary verbs and articles like "a" or "the", which is where it starts getting difficult when they start going beyond the basics. Much like how westerners struggle with the inanimate / animate distinction, connective forms, and implicit, but unspoken clauses in Japanese, they struggle with clause nesting, articles, stress, and so on. Trying to explain to an English learner the difference between "the University of So-And-So" and "So-And-So University" is an exercise in futility, I've found.
IMHO, English is a lot easier to write and read, but far more difficult to speak to someone learning the language. Japanese is the polar opposite, since it favors low complexity conversations but the writing system is where the real challenge lies.
