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@japaneselanguage I like how Japanese is simply structured. Especially as a programmer, I have been able to pick up Japanese due to how sentences are structure (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by oglothenerd@mastodon.social to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz

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@japaneselanguage I like how Japanese is simply structured. Especially as a programmer, I have been able to pick up Japanese due to how sentences are structured.

(I don't have a Japanese keyboard.)

watashi wa (
niji ni (
hirugohan o (
tabemasu
)
)
)

Everything can be broken into blocks which is really nice. This is what programming languages do, so this feels very natural to me.

My native language is English, but I am thinking of moving to Japan.

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[–] vivia@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yes, I completely agree with you! I was saying this exact thing to my sensei some time ago and she couldn't understand what I mean, despite knowing a few foreign languages herself, Japanese is her native language so she couldn't judge it from the perspective of someone learning it as a foreign language. But I also like how everything is well-structured and it's also not full of exceptions. My husband only started learning a few months ago but he also agrees!

[–] oglothenerd@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@vivia Yeah! I love how there is no conjugation, and no plurals. I am also learning Russian, and Japanese and Russian are basically complete opposites! I think the only thing that is superior to Japanese in English, is how you count numbers. I love how Japanese is very specific with things like a dedicated word ka for notating a question. Russian is even less specific than English, Russian just relies on the voice! Japanese is definitely far superior in how you can specify stuff.

[–] Umechan@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love how there is no conjugation

What do people mean when they say this? If anything, I'd say Japanese had more conjugations than English, because you conjugate i-adjectives as well as verbs.