Learning How to Read Japanese

Understanding written Japanese is the main goal of many Japanese learners yet few guides focus on it. With good grammar skills, a few hundred kanji and browser extensions, you can start reading the Japanese web. Start learning Hiragana and...
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“Japanese is really freaking difficult.” “Japanese is really freaking vague.” “Japanese is really freaking illogical.” These statements have three things in common: They are widely believed by many would-be Japanese learners. They get in the way of learning the language. They are completely bogus. To succeed in your Japanese mission, you must ignore the cynics, defeatists, killjoys, naysayers, party poopers, pessimists, sourpusses, and wet blankets. Japanese is not nearly as challenging as the Debby Downers would have you believe, and is in fact easier in many key ways than supposedly “easy” Romance languages like Spanish.