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by emodendroket 785 days ago
I don't think Japanese is really any more grammatically complicated than any other language (the writing system is a different story but if you're comfortable with Chinese you already have an appropriate degree of Stockholm Syndrome on that front anyway). Different languages just move the complexity around to different places rather than getting rid of it. For instance, Japanese has only 3 irregular verbs in the entire language. Singular and plural need not be marked. Verb and adjective agreement aren't issues. And so on.