The_Zergling
Junior Member
I always wished I learned more languages as a kid, it's so hard to pick up by now. Even though I wholeheartedly agree that Japanese is insanely difficult to learn, what with the different sets of characters, plus all the different words you have to use in different situations regarding formalities, it's a real pain.
Ironically, it's the language I plan to master in college, mostly because I am hopelessly addicted to Manga.
As others said, English is the business language of the world, which is a pretty good incentive for learning it. I remember when I was having a similiar discussion about languages with my friends, a point was brought up that if you had decent linguistic roots in English, you could guess the meanings of words that you hadn't memorized yet by their prefixes or stuff like that, whereas in Chinese if you've never memorized the word then you have no idea how to pronounce it, although you might have a vague chance of guessing its meaning by its "部首". No idea what that's called in English.
Ironically, it's the language I plan to master in college, mostly because I am hopelessly addicted to Manga.
As others said, English is the business language of the world, which is a pretty good incentive for learning it. I remember when I was having a similiar discussion about languages with my friends, a point was brought up that if you had decent linguistic roots in English, you could guess the meanings of words that you hadn't memorized yet by their prefixes or stuff like that, whereas in Chinese if you've never memorized the word then you have no idea how to pronounce it, although you might have a vague chance of guessing its meaning by its "部首". No idea what that's called in English.
