The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. The Japanese name for the language is Nihongo.
Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, but do not agree further about the origins of the language. An older view, still widely held by non-specialists, is that Japanese is a language isolate.
One of the hardest things about learning the language of Japanese may possibly be trying to learn the different dialects. Individuals may think that from what they have heard of the language that it would just be too difficult to learn.
Let's start by giving a good number of reasons why learning Japanese might be of interest to you. You may be about to travel to a Japanese speaking country...