What is harder to learn? Japanese or French?

Question

I am learning both and I would say that Japanese is easier to speak but the kana and kanji is kind of challenging...I was wondering what other people thought.

Answer 1

If you don't count the written part of the language, French is harder. One of the most challenging aspects of learning any language is the grammar. And some of the most difficult aspects of grammar are the verb tenses. While Japanese only has past, present, and future, French adds past perfect, present perfect, future perfect, subjunctive, etc... I don't even remember all of those tenses anymore.

If you count writing, then Japanese is harder. This is because by junior high school, a typical Japanese student has already memorized over 2000 characters. While a foreigner can learn enough to read a newspaper, no foreigner can ever truly catch up to a native except under extraordinary circumstances. This is not the case with French.

Answer 2

Japanese

Answer 3

It probably depends on what your native language is. If you come from Asia, especially China/Korea, then I expect Japanese would be easier because it's more closely related to your native language.

Most people who have a western language as their native language would probably find Japanese way harder to learn than French.

Answer 4

Japanese because you have to learn the language and the symbols

Answer 5

Japanese is harder for me because it is harder for me to pronounce. French is easy.

Answer 6

i'm taking both japanese & french in school...japanese is way harder

Answer 7

well i took french and it was hard but japanese sounds so much harder!!

Answer 8

french is harder

Answer 9

i don't know, but i'm taking frecnh and its pretty hard. imagine how japanese would be?

Answer 10

polish