Yes, it’s just as the title says, only by “you” I mean “my Japanese ability” and by “the last time” I mean “again.” You see, even for someone of my ridiculously large intellect, learning a foreign language can be a very frustrating thing. This is even more true when the language you are learning has a completely different alphabet (or 3), and uses completely different grammatical structures. Compared to Japanese, studying a language like Spanish seems easier than taking candy from an automatic candy dispensing machine. In Spanish you can say something like “El carro es rápido” and be immediately understood by most any English speaker, regardless of whether or not they have any experience with the language. The same is most definitely not true for Japanese, and it gets worse; the language itself isn’t the only obstacle you need to overcome.

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