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The kanji are probably the hardest part for me, but I've always been terrible at retaining vocabulary and kanji is another layer on top of that. Japanese grammar is imo easier than most languages. There's not as much declination as even something like Spanish and the way particles work clicks with me more than some other forms of grammar used for syntax. I also like how easily you can form a clause in Japanese and then use it as a subject or an object. I've seen people say Japanese sounds like a caveman talking but I think it has plenty of depth, just in a different way than most European languages that have much more complex grammar (at least in terms of verb conjugations, or case systems).

I'm more than willing to believe that it's a product of just me being way more interested in Japanese media (even if it was just anime and manga, though that's not all) and probably having way more immersion in my life from that than any other language I've tried learning.