Granted, I am not yet in a position of understanding, but watching some japanese clips lately, it seems, and I probably won’t articulate this well, but hope I can be understood nonetheless, it seems like a choppy, and in the ways that one can express himself almost restrictive language. Yes, you ca…

[image] RedOliveBlue: You made your intentions much more explicitly clear, which is the problem. At the risk of trying a little too hard to smooth things over, I’d like to suggest we give OP a bit of the benefit of doubt, because OP isn’t a native English speaker and we all know things can co…

I don’t really get what you mean to be honest. It’s a practical real world language, so it’s clearly expressive enough, and if you think it’s good for poetry/literature then you clearly think it’s quite an expressive language… [image] Goliath_2412: but the frequent lack of pronouns if you do…

What Japanese clips have you been watching? What in particular seemed choppy or restrictive? Perhaps it’s the resources themselves? Apart from that, no I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean. I’ve never felt like I wasn’t able to express myself. I hope you overcome the feeling! :slight_smile:

[image] Goliath_2412: in the ways that one can express himself almost restrictive language. Are you sure you’re not referring to cultural differences? Where stereotypically, Japanese people are more reserved in expressing themselves compared to, say, the United States. Americans are stereotyp…

I woudn’t say it is limited by any means. It’s just different from what we are used to in our native language. Perhaps things that we are used to having many ways to express only has a few in Japanese but it also goes the other way.

I think one of the issues with the way Japanese is taught, they often start out with very concrete ideas and objects. Simple things like “I want to buy a t-shirt” etc. Very practical but not very beautiful or expressive. However, if you ask people on here what some of their favorite words and phrase…

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I think it‘s good for poetry, because it is so vague. The ~frog jumps in pond haiku has produced different translations by every translator, which are so completely different. I am currently struggling with trying to find out what is is, that I want to say and which is my gripe. But If you refer …

Japanese has room for a lot of nuance. Moreso in writing than in speech, but even in speech there are a lot of possible synonyms to be used, for example these words may all be translated as "to eat’: 食べる食う食事するいただく召し上がる食らう And some more. Maybe also have a look at The Nuance Thread …

Once you have more control over the language you’ll likely find you can express yourself in ways you hadn’t imagined before, because those expressions may not exist in the languages you know now. So it’s definitely worth it to keep studying :slight_smile:

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Concerns over the Japanese language

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