on a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is japanese to learn

[T3HZ3N0N]

i need something to do for summer, so i want to learn some japanese, how hard would it be?

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[Vegetarian Zombie]

8.

[kegeshan]

8.

Also,
がんばって。

Edit: One more thing, if you're teaching yourself, this is a good place to start.

[Riot]

Compared to English, not very hard. English contains a large amount of sounds while Japanese doesn't, sentence structure is simpler and there are no gliding vowels.

Numerous amount of characters though.

[kegeshan]

Numerous amount of characters though.

About 2000 in common use, 800 used for names, and about 50,000-100,000 total. Good luck with that.

[danisaac5]

7, easy to remember, hard to pronounce

[Yosher]

7, easy to remember, hard to write

Fixed.

[Ningyou]

Fixed.

I agree.

[Port]

number/10

[RedGajin]

do you plan on spending a lot of time in  japan or something?

[Vegetarian Zombie]

do you plan on spending a lot of time in  japan or something?

Colleges like when people know multiple languages

[Beachbum]

Conversational Japanese isn't that bad, but the slang and terms normal people use can take you a lifetime. The best way to learn a language is to go to its native country and speak it with people.

[RedGajin]

Colleges like when people know multiple languages

Well if he's not planning on going to japan I would just think it would be better to learn a useful language. Unless he's already pretty fluent in one.

[Beachbum]

Well if he's not planning on going to japan I would just think it would be better to learn a useful language. Unless he's already pretty fluent in one.

English, Spanish, German.

Only universal languages.

[Clone v.117]

Learning a language over summer isn't going to happen, I studied indonesian for several years and compared to japanese it is like a piece of cake, yet having an ordinary conversation is difficult.