There are many reason that one might want to learn Japanese. Some people are interested in Japanese because of the cultural phenomenon that many products from Japan have become… from video games to anime.
Others like Japan because of the traditional culture and its deep roots. Even others gravitate to Japan because it is the second largest economy in the world and want to learn Japanese for business reasons.
For whatever your reason may be for learning a language like Japanese, you must remember a few things that learning a foreign language successfully means.
For English speakers, Japanese is a more difficult language to learn because it does not use the roman script and also because there are few cognates.
Spanish or French, on the other hand, use the same script as English and also share many words because English borrowed a great number of words from these languages and other Latin influences thus resulting in many cognates between the languages. This means that you can pick up a great number of words simply because they are very similar to the English equivalents.
What this means for studying Japanese is not that it is impossible but just a bit more difficult.
However, my best advice for you is to keep your reasons for learning Japanese strong if you want to get far in it.
My best advice to you is to make sure that your reason for learning the foreign language, in this case, Japanese, is a strong one.
So, whether you want to become better at business and open up new opportunities or if you want to better understand that next anime episode you watch, make sure you keep that desire strong in your mind and heart.
Whatever the case may be, remember to keep this reason foremost in your mind and that will help bring the spark to keep you going in the long process which master a foreign language like Japanese entails. Good luck and I hope that you continue to make progress in learning Japanese.
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This post was written by Robertson Kunz on November 23, 2009
