nihongo ha ikaga desuka?

went to shinjuku with paul.helped him finding an electronic japanese dictionary.after 13 years in japan finally he got that motivation of learning japanese seriously...all the 'kanji's and stuff.
i remember when i started learning japanese 10 years ago,it was a pain in the ass.first i had to learn and remember all 47 basic letters called of the japanese called 'Hiragana'.next another 47 letters called 'Katagana' specialized for japanese words adopted from foreign languages...after consuming most of your brains cells remembering all 100 cacing looking letters finally the shit of em all,the 'kanji' characters.
'kanji' characters are actually chinese characters,yeah...like those you see up on kedai runcit ah beng's signboard.and what is so fuckin hard about these 'kanji' characters is each character is represented a combination of several 'hiragana's or 'katagana's and there endless 'kanji' characters in the japanese language but you only need to remember about 5000 of em for you to be alright living a japanese life...this is the point where anybody to think twice...or more,whether it's worth continue torturing oneself learning japanese or quit,and learn something else.
i can say that i picked the right choice.i'm not gonna be what i am right and where i am right now if select the other choice which was quiting learning japanese.
anyway,my piece of advice...you better learn french.

saturday night,shinjuku station