We might have? We talk about so much it's hard to keep track! XD
And apparently with languages like Italian and English, there's about 80% vocabulary overlap, but with Japanese it's only 20-30%. So the amount you could learn in 400 hours of formal instruction for a European language would take 1000+ hours for Japanese. @____@
And there is that too!! I don't really know the difference between English and other European languages because when I was studying French I never really got to that level but Japanese is the craziest language! It's really weird reading Harry Potter in Japanese because they have to add all these levels of formality that just don't exist in English thought. XD
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And apparently with languages like Italian and English, there's about 80% vocabulary overlap, but with Japanese it's only 20-30%. So the amount you could learn in 400 hours of formal instruction for a European language would take 1000+ hours for Japanese. @____@
And there is that too!! I don't really know the difference between English and other European languages because when I was studying French I never really got to that level but Japanese is the craziest language! It's really weird reading Harry Potter in Japanese because they have to add all these levels of formality that just don't exist in English thought. XD