@xianc78 @orekix @sathariel Yes, exactly. I don't fucking understand the Chinese romanization. Chinese anime exists, I've also seen Chinese movies and I cannot make head or tails of the language, while compared to Japanese, anyone will be able to pick up something on their first watch
@orekix @sathariel @xianc78 I'll add to that, it's pretty bad when you cannot even pick up a characters name in a sentence

Compared to Japanese where first subs watching will immediately notice the honorifics, which will then google them, and the second thing they'll notice is the titles (Onee-san, Aniki, Senpai, Sensei, Buchou and the likes) where they'll also quickly google it and understand immediately, and also quickly understand that some of these doesn't make them siblings necessarily and then they'll start picking more and more from there

This is just not happening with Chinese. I've picked jackshit
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@coolboymew @orekix @sathariel There are multiple dialects of Chinese though and from what I can tell, the tone of your voice also matters when speaking it. This is also another reason I gave up on it (at least for now) and I thought Latin was hard.

I don't know that much about Japanese. I think the hard part about that is the multiple writing systems and that from what I heard males and females are supposed to pronounce words differently.

I heard that Korean might be the easiest Asian language to learn as an English speaker. I've been considering learning that as I want to learn an Asian language.

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@xianc78 @orekix @sathariel Japanese is not that hard, other than Kanjis. If you were willing to attempt to learn Chinese, you'll have a pleasant time with Japanese. There's 3 writing systems. There's the Hiragana and Katakana. Literally the same thing but different characters. Katakana is usually used for foreign words or to add emphasis instead of just putting it in bold or something. They have more or less the same sounds. Katakana is kind of a shitshow in a way that its more of a guide on how to pronounce a foreign word using Japanese pronunciation. This leads to it being hard to understand and giving you no idea how something is supposed to be spelled in English for fantasy works, like for example, One Piece: Roguetown/Loguetown, Oz/Oars, Raftel/Laugh Tale, etc

@coolboymew @orekix @sathariel I've actually downloaded the zip archive of DJT and almost forgot all about it. I guess I could probably attempt to learn it. At least romanized Japanese makes sense.

@coolboymew @orekix @sathariel And now I am realizing that you need good hand writing to write in kana. This is going to be hard.

@xianc78 @orekix @sathariel this might be bad, but I personally avoided the handwriting part. I never write by hand anyways
@coolboymew @xianc78 @orekix i learnt in handwriting before learnt to use a japanese input mode, i used to take irl classes.
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