@japaneselanguage I like how Japanese is simply structured. Especially as a programmer, I have been able to pick up Japanese due to how sentences are structured.

(I don’t have a Japanese keyboard.)

watashi wa (
niji ni (
hirugohan o (
tabemasu
)
)
)

Everything can be broken into blocks which is really nice. This is what programming languages do, so this feels very natural to me.

My native language is English, but I am thinking of moving to Japan.

  • PeterCxy@metapowers.org
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    1 year ago

    If you use the most formal grammar taught to beginners, then every single language can be broken down this way – and this is nothing special to Japanese. Unfortunately this sort of nice structure tends to melt away as you transition to more “natural” ways of talking / writing, even in formal contexts. Even things like the -ka suffix (as mentioned in another comment) is really often just not a thing in normal speaking.

    And no, Japanese isn’t free from conjugations. It simply conjugates in a different way compared to what European languages tend to do. And the use of suffixes and forming “verb chains” is also core to how the language’s grammar works.