I currently have to use Subtitles, kinda annoying. And I despise dubs since the voice acting is so bad, I mean like the emotions in the voice, its so emotionless in English.

I am a English speaker with some fluency in Cantonese and Mandarin.

How difficult is Japanese? Am I gonna waste a lot of time?

Also what’s the best resource to learn?

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 day ago

    Japanese: one thousands place, three hundreds place, five tens place, two

    That sounds like: 一千 三百 五十 二 (In both Chinese and Japanese Kanji)

    “thousand(s)” is one word, there is no separate “place” word lol, doesn’t seem that different from english tbh

    I think the better way to highlight the difference with English is the 萬 (10,000) 億 (100,000,000) which becomes the new place value instead of “milllion” (1,000,000) and “billion” (1,000,000,000). 千萬 (thousand-[wan/man]; aka: thousand-[ten thousand]; aka: 10,000,000) become a new word that would be slightly more challenging for English-Only speakers.