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472:. It's sometimes described as being "One of the most difficult languages" to master and I guess most people have never really understood what it would be like to use a language that consists of litterally thousands of characters, that all would have to be learned. I didn't understand either, but I wanted to. One day I found (sort of by accident) a
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Politeness. Besides that, I'm also generally interested in Technology, and since alot of new stuff comes from Japan, this also got me attracted.
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