English is a fairly simple language that through the years has shaved off a lot of the complexities.
No grammatical genders - In languages like French, German or Spanish, you need to know the gender of the words, and there can be multiple, depending on the language, more than 3 genders.
Fairly simple declension - I refer you to this Wikipedika article to see all the ways you can have articles and pronouns be in German, depending on the grammatical case and gender of the word. And you need to use the correct one.
Fairly simple verb conjugation - Want 3rd person? Just add an “s”. Want past tense? Just add “ed”. That’s it basically for verb forms. Sure, there are irregular forms for past tense, but even those mostly follow a similar pattern, e.g “bought”, “fought”, “thought”, “caught”.
Behold this Wikipedia article again explaining all the verb forms you can have in German (look at those tables each containing a verb form lol). Oh btw, it does have irregular forms too.
The spelling is a mess, true, like, we don’t even have enough alphabets, and the way words are written are a complete mess compared to how they are spoken.
But comparing it to Kanji where you have learn roughly one symbol for each word? Where you literally can spend years learning it? Not learning the language itself, just learning how to read it.
Oh, did I mention there are also 2 other alphabet sets that Japanese does have? Don’t worry though, that’s only around like a hundred or so additional symbols.
English is a fairly simple language that through the years has shaved off a lot of the complexities.
No grammatical genders - In languages like French, German or Spanish, you need to know the gender of the words, and there can be multiple, depending on the language, more than 3 genders.
Fairly simple declension - I refer you to this Wikipedika article to see all the ways you can have articles and pronouns be in German, depending on the grammatical case and gender of the word. And you need to use the correct one.
Fairly simple verb conjugation - Want 3rd person? Just add an “s”. Want past tense? Just add “ed”. That’s it basically for verb forms. Sure, there are irregular forms for past tense, but even those mostly follow a similar pattern, e.g “bought”, “fought”, “thought”, “caught”.
Behold this Wikipedia article again explaining all the verb forms you can have in German (look at those tables each containing a verb form lol). Oh btw, it does have irregular forms too.
The spelling is a mess, true, like, we don’t even have enough alphabets, and the way words are written are a complete mess compared to how they are spoken.
But comparing it to Kanji where you have learn roughly one symbol for each word? Where you literally can spend years learning it? Not learning the language itself, just learning how to read it. Oh, did I mention there are also 2 other alphabet sets that Japanese does have? Don’t worry though, that’s only around like a hundred or so additional symbols.