The first thing to remember when you try to learn Japanese is they have three writting system: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, they some time use Romaji (Romanized Japanese), too. At first, I was naive to think that I could learn Japanese using just Romaji, but it turn out that use need to practice reading a lot but you cannot do it using Romaji only. So what are easy and difficult things about Japanese?
- Pronuciation: To me Japanese pronunciation is pretty easy because they has very few sounds, like a, i, u, e,o, ... [Point: 1/5]
- Grammar: It seems that the grammar is quite difficult but they has some specific rules. Point [4/5]
- Writting system: the fact that they has few sounds lead to they has two use Hiragana (for native Japanese and grammatical words), Katakana (for foreign origin words), and Kanji (Chinese characters) all together. [Point: 5/5]
- Vocabulary: Because native Japanese words, it's quite crazy when comes to this part because when will find words from English or other foreign language (in Katakana form) and Chinese (in Kanji) and some words are combination from these elements. [Point: 5/5].
So to me, overall score is 4/5.