>>35265326The two languages couldn't be more different if an alien AI tried to design two languages to be as far removed as possible while still functioning in a human's mouth. Eigo has 44 phonemes. Nihongo has 15. Eigo has entire concepts that don't really exist in Nihongo... direct/indirect articles, (a/an/the), plural declension of nouns, possessive declension of nouns and entire swaths of vocabulary that are are harder to pronounce """japanese""" words. Convenience Store instead of konbini, for example. The things that can normally be handled with a handful of particles (ga, ka, mou, de, ni, e, o and a couple others that escape me atm) are spread across dozens of prepositional phrases. As big a pain in the ass as it might be doing JP reps, I don't begrudge them the struggle of going in the other direction.
