asking opinion

[Matthew Walsh]

   Firstly I'd want to examine the proposition that Japanese grammar  
is comparatively more complicated, or that learning the language is  
harder for English NSs than natives of other languages.  However, in  
looking for contrastive areas of difficulty, I've wondered about  
typologies and if English's grammatical word order along with its  
subject prominence, opposed to Japanese's pragmatic word order along  
with its topic prominence doesn't create difficulties. Also of course  
teasing out which forms do which functions since the languages seem  
to not transliterate very well at times.

my two cents




On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Bagus Basuki wrote:

> do you think learning japanese for english speaking people is hard  
> since japanese has very complicated grammar?

Sincerely,
   Matthew Walsh

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