[geralds]

Well that actualy all depends on the person really the hole idea is it still harder to learn then a language with roman letters. I was noting the way japanese children are taught it does take them 6 years to learn the most common ones as its how there taught threw school. Japanese is ranked on one of the hardest languages to learn though along with chinese and a few other asian languages but in the long run it does depend on there person. Your ability to memorize plays a big role in learn Japanese some people can just memorize stuff better then other people thus for them it will be easier.