Learning Japanese is tough [1. Seriously. There are many listings of hardest languages for English speakers to learn, but Japanese is always near the top. According to this wikipedia article, the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the US Department of State considers it the hardest!]. Many things about the language seem pretty easy – pronunciation and vocab, for instance – but putting it all together and making something that people will understand come out of your mouth is quite the challenge.

Luckily, we have the internet to help us! [2. If you can avoid being distracted by facebook for five seconds] There are some great resources to help you study Japanese. [3. Like this one.] And many many more to make you laugh at studying Japanese. Here are two youtube videos that are among the latter, but… there is some truth in them. If you are a student of Japanese you will probably find them at least a little funny, if not, they will probably strike you as very very strange.

Either way, enjoy learning how to speak Japanese without saying a word: