I *hate* grammar. I never know where I am with it. With Chinese, I feel like I'm wafting gas about; with Latin or Russian I could never remember what the hell was going on … but once it clicks, Japanese is just *clear*. Those modules (re, tai, nai) become easy to recognise.
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Replying to @samuel_wade @isaiahmschrader
I will actually co-sign this, and it’s a lot more tolerable in writing than in a conversational context. It’s a different kind of Lego than Chinese grammar and it sticks together in different ways, but it’s manageably modular.
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Replying to @samuel_wade @isaiahmschrader
I’m not in the habit of saying anything positive about Japanese, or at least not without immediately qualifying it with something really damning.
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As someone who came from Japanese to Chinese, I can say the work that goes into expressing the same thought as a non-native speaker is far smaller for the latter because you're not under the same pressure to try and tailor every aspect of each sentence to an exact situation.
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“Wait, is the person I’m talking to better than me, or worse?”
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For all the shit we give the low-key sexism baked into Mandarin, Japanese is far more restrictive in terms of the gender expression and designations it forces on female speakers.
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Hey quick q while you're all here--have language learning tools and dictionaries improved for Japanese at all in the last decade? Because Pleco is amazing for Mandarin but I *still* can't find any obvious counterparts for Japanese.
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No, I never studied Japanese past noodle level. @bokane is your guy for this.
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Replying to @Pinboard @KangHexin and
I have sworn a mickle oath against Japanese and all its works, sorry
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