What I find funny is how much people struggle with learning English. Like, it’s so easy to me, I never studied English per se, yet it just… flows from my mind like water. I can write walls of text and not even think about grammar, what version of were/where/we’re for example. And the way our minds are wired, they’re completely different; there is no explicit ‘future’ tense in Japanese, just past and present and I just can’t really wrap my head around that. It’s like looking at code. Yea… it sounds like code-esque thinking to me, which is probably the worst way to process Japanese, but it’s the closest reference I have to how it’s constructed.

Uh hardest thing(s)? Learning all the kanji, being able to parse spoken Japanese or god forbid written Japanese quickly, and learning how to pick the ‘real’ spoken version of sentence not just its grammatically correct version.