I don’t think it’s that hard but it might be coming from a somewhat adjacent culture and already being vaguely familiar with grammar rules. Having said that I’m not even conversational as I’m entirely too casual with learning 🤣 and the characters were initially challenging. Then there was that fun period of time where I was trying to learn to write some of the kanji and as it’s been aeons since I learned to write I had to wonder how I ever learned to write anything (in English!) to begin with 🤣
Hmm maybe I should talk to you about my project sometime and see how I compare on the scale of detail, i keep getting told I think too much 😆
That does sound like you’re just skimming across some insane detail orientation though 😳 I am simultaneously astonished and not surprised in the slightest 😆
I think it’s not hard cause you are a genius 😛 and because you haven’t tried to read Yukio Mishima in Japanese or write a novel.
What kind of details are you playing with? I feel like a lot of people I get along with are interested in details, but there is a certain kind of rigidity about it here. My student was complaining about her coworker being late for 2 minutes. She doesn’t mind if I’m late because I am a FOREIGNER!
I didn’t even really get into it! If I did I would never finish, I bet that’s why some people don’t even start blogging 😛
I'm nowhere near the same universe as a genius XD
And no I haven't tried to do anything other than...read really. I know some Japanese speakers though and I've been able to understand a bit more when I hear them talking (not eavesdropping honest, they just sit close by to me when they're talking XD).
Details like well the first and classic example was at some point in the story I'm working through now, some characters were doing something which I knew was a cultural thing but I wanted to know why it was a cultural thing.
I ended up travelling back 1000 odd years into that past figuring out why and when the martial art those characters did was developed which answered my question of why they were doing what they were doing and in that process I found a lot more character stories and developed a deeper understanding of the entire world/universe they're in (even though the chances of any of my stories coming out are slim to none never mind all this background stuff that I keep diving into because it's interesting.
Along a similar vein it's not enough that it's known that a character has this specific personality type/trait, I end up delving into their childhood to find out why (seems like while a number of characters seem to have reasons for being the way they are, one of them is actually just an arsehole XD).
Some things are like that though ^_^; If you mean some people don't start blogging because they start the post and never finish it yep that's me too, totally get that x_x