>>489921Just because it's hard for English speakers to learn a certain language doesn't mean it's hard for speakers of that language to learn English.
Japanese is hard because of their utterly retarded writing system and a large degree of context sensitive grammar/expression. English is pretty simple all around, the only issue being that English vocabulary is derived from many different languages, which means it's pointless to try to guess what a word means based on root meanings, and that there's a large degree of variance between word spellings because foreign words for whatever reason never got a native spelling. Those are relatively minor issues compared to how fucking retarded Japanese is on every level.
>>489767It's not that it's inherently hard for Japs to learn English, but that Japs don't need to know English to live a full life. You encounter similar issues in Europe, where people from minor countries are fluent in English because they encounter English in everyday life, whereas people from large markets often suck at English because all the media they would want to consoom is translated and everything is labelled in their own language. Japan has that issue x10 due to using a retarded script on top of everything being localized.
