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this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Oh and for how easy it is. If you're coming from a germanic or a romance language, it shares almost no words and roots, which means its going to take overall its going to take longer. But in most ways its much easier and more logical. No verb conjugations, no weird plurals, easier tenses, logical word and character construction. I'd argue its even better constructed even than esperanto, which still kept the weird verb declinations.
The only extra annoyance is measure words (which english has also, ie a flock of birds, a pile of clothes).
Does it have different words for the number of objects in a group like Japanese does, or just different types of groups of objects?
Numbers stay the same, but the words for "collection/group" change depending on the object. It goes [number] [measure word] [noun]
I'm not familiar with Japanese so I can't say.
If I remember correctly, the "group" names in Japanese are based on shape but aren't always intuitive, and sometimes a certain number of them will have its own special name or way of counting - the sort of thing that requires a lot of rote memorization.