Quote Originally Posted by Colino View Post
I can say it's not, especially when coming from a latin language. In fact, most Italians/Spaniards I know pronounce all Japanese words perfectly, because they would sound exactly the same in their language.

It's harder than English I'll give you that much, but it's not even close to languages like Hungarian, Ukranian or some other stuff.
Pronounciation is not really the issue with Japanese, it's the writing, reading, and grammar structure that is completely different. They don't have a 'be'-verb at all, instead they have this abstract "topic" and "attribute" system instead. their sentence structure is neither object-subject-verb, nor subject-object-verb. It's just verb. Which leads to many issues...

My language is considered as one of the most difficult European languages to learn (sister language of Hungarian- or was it Ukranian?), but for a latin language speaker it is still easier than learning an Asian language. It's different in many ways, but not -that- different.