I was a bit bored the other day, so messed around on Google looking for links to the Saitama Jets, the football team I play for. There, I ran across the blog of one Will Bragg, formerly Wild Bill, crazy Jets defender. I also found the blog of a guy playing for the Aomori team, who we regularly play against. Since we beat them last time, I kindly pointed him to the detailed match report I wrote, just to rub it in!
Finally, the Aomori guy, Francis, had this link to a great page about reasons why NOT to study Japanese. Amusing for those of us who have struggled to master this language.
Not only is it not simple, it's probably one of the hardest language you could ever want to learn. With THREE completely different written languages (none of which make sense), multitude of useless, confusing politeness levels, and absolutely insane grammatical structure, Japanese has been crushing the souls of the pathetic Gaijin since it's conception. Let's go over some of these elements mentioned above so you can get a better idea of what I mean.
All in all, a very worthwhile 5 minutes of googling.
Posted by Gary at May 20, 2004 10:20 AM