which language is harder to learn, japanese or greek?

Answer 1

Japanese is very sing-song and since most of us were raised on nursery rhymes as our first experiences with language, I think Japanese (at least for me) was much easier. It is not a hard language at all actually. But I would hesitate (and I have) on learning Chinese or Vietnamese...now they are just plain hard!

What I think was harder than the language itself in Japanese was getting used to knowing what form of a word or phrase to use and with whom. The language is deeply rooted in respect and you can't say what you would to a family member, to a stranger in the same way.

Like Good Morning to your mom, would just be ohayo but you would have to add a word like Goziamasu at the end of ohayo if you were speaking to an aquaintence.
Goziamasu adds "respectfully." at the end of just plain old, good morning. The polite forms and suffixes can get a bit tricky too but not too bad they seem to follow one another naturally as in what comes next usually makes sense once you know it a little, you can pretty much figure it out.

Masu, masu ka? Masshita, mashita ka? masen, mashoo...Etc.

I enjoyed learning Greek and latin because of their history but Japanese was easier by far!

Not to mention that although greek words formed half of the words used in the world as roots and foundations, lots of japanse words came to them the same but american was used at the catalyst and some of the japanese words are so american it is almost too easy! Like Beru is beer and lettuce is retasu (think about it.) meatball is meto boru.
Makes it more fun!

Answer 2

Depends. First of all, they are related, and no, I'm not kidding. The expression Gen-ki-desu-ka, for instance, uses the same "Geni" as the Greek derived words genesis and genetics (1). For me, though, Greek would be harder, at least for a native speaker of English; the Greek make the most insane differentiation between very abstract things, like the types of love (2). My Greek is limited to just some swear words, though.

Answer 3

I can speak Japanese so I'd say Greek. To write, who knows? Japanese is pretty hard to write perfectly even though I am fluent speaking-wise.

Answer 4

Japanese because of the writing style

Answer 5

japanese is harder to learn,many countries have adupt greek words like planet,geography,math,star,dinosaur,,paranoia,alphabet,doctor all these and much more come from greek words the routes are greek so it would be easy to learn greek because you already know greek!

Answer 6

Greek. the sex of the object changes which in turn changes all the other words. There are also seven different words for love depending on what kind of love it is. Talk about needing vocab lessons!

Answer 7

Japanese definitely!

Answer 8

Greek if your Japanese and vice versa!

Answer 9

Japanese, it has 4 forms of writing it. Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana and Romanji. What I mean is that just one word, could be written in 4 different forms, making it quite complicated, especially which one to use.

Answer 10

Japanese definiatley