| pastro243 said: Im not from an english speaking country and I think English is way easier than something like japanese. Anyway, the differences in the language between US and UK are like the differences that happen in spanish between spain and every country in latin america, though the difference is bigger with spanish. |
Of course you would. English and Spanish share a common ancestor probably less than 6,000 years ago. English also borrows half of its vocabulary from latin, the language Spanish used to be a dialect of. Japanese is a language isolate. Pretty much all the languages it is related to have been long since dead. The closest living relative to Japanese is probably some types of Korean, and it is believed they split about 40,000 years ago(Indo-european languages are only about 10,000 years old for reference.) Then the closest relatives to those two are probably Turkish and Finnish. English has more in common with Russian than Japanese has with Korean. This is just to give you an idea of scope btw. So yeah, english would be an easier language to learn from the experience of a Spanish speaker. Actually as an only English speaker, I can "guess" the words of Spanish and French due to latin roots alone. That is something I can't do in Japanese unless they are a borrowed word in the last 50 years. Now to a non-indo european speaker they may find English quite hard and vice versa.
