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These are actual phrases said in my class:
"Can I bring in anime for us to watch and get class credit!?"
"Sensei, can you help me translate my hentai game?"
"Can we make Friday a dress up as your favourite anime character day? I want everyone to see my Shippo (from Inuyasha)!"
English, German, French, all of these languages are from Europe, they (for the most part) share the same alphabet, and work on similar logic. Japanese is not like that at all. The signs are maddening, and even if some structures might seem simpler in Japanese (verbs, plural, many things being "implied" etc.) it still takes time getting use to it, because we're used to their way in the Western languages.
And furthermore, studying Japanese most often also involves cultural studies, because even if you watch anime 24/7, you will definitely still not catch all the things that are customs in Japan..... I mean...
-Omiyage
-Ojamashimasu
-Irasshaimase
Those are things I never got from anime!
That is a huge load of work, so I am not really surprised people give up, and just wish they had an anime fanclub.
Sorry, maybe what I wrote was redundant. I myself started learning about a year ago, and ... yeah, I have a grasp on verbs, adjectives and the like, plus I know hiragana and katakana, but my kanji is extremely poor, and given how I'm mostly only able to learn from audio lessons while driving to school, I don't have time to read, and hence my kanji weakness. Ugh, I always feel so stupid, that I'm wasting time and that I'll never learn it, but...... somehow stupidly I keep trying.... and... I guess I felt like venting. Sorry...
french is latin based, german is germanic, and english is a mix of both
asian im not shure how many there is in that languish tree thoe.