Americans have small brains apparently

[u/EverySink]

[u/RueUchiha]

If Japaneese was the international buisness language, I am sure we all would know Japaneese too.

[u/SW3GM45T3R → u/RueUchiha]

english : we will need you to remember these 26 characters, they make up every word we have

japanese : we have 3,000+ kanji that make up our modern spoken and written tongue, you better memorize it and if you don't, we will call you stupid

[u/mramisuzuki → u/SW3GM45T3R]

Now deal with our 40 more sounds and long expressive language that allows to communicate minute details without justifying “context”.

We have more than 26 characters, that’s just the alphabet.

[u/Azidamadjida → u/mramisuzuki]

Lmao this. Add to that that the meaning and inflection of those sounds changes depending on the region. An “eeh” in Tokyo is gonna be different than an “eeeeeehhh?” in Osaka, and it’s gonna sound even more different depending on if it’s a male or female speaker.

And that’s not even getting into the onomatopoeia that you would never know about learning just business or self-taught Japanese, all that shit comes from common speaking with peers. Which also brings up that you only use certain words when you’re speaking to an older person - at least the pronunciation is pretty easy to get down, it’s all the unspoken cultural rules and idioms and such that bogs the learning process down lol

[u/willowoftheriver → u/mramisuzuki]

Sure, but we don't have a pictograph system with multiple readings depending on context (Japanese), and we don't have a system of three gendered articles that are vital to understanding what's been said (German), or an extensive system of different word endings that indicate what they're each doing in the sentence (Latin).

English is honestly pretty streamlined.