Why do I feel hard the Greek more than Japanese?

I had learned Japanese when I was in a high school. I cannot exactly remember what I learned, but I can flash back to my feeling at the time. I felt comfortable about Japanese, even if I was not good at the subject. The reason that I could take the language easily may be that I already had chance to contact with Japanese.

To be specific, I watched Japanese’s movies and many animations, such as Crows Zero, Naruto and Bleach. Although I watched with subtitle and I was not motivated to study Japanese, it helped me learn Japanese. Especially, when it comes to pronunciation, the experience’s effect appeared. Another reason that I took the language more easily is that Japanese is similar to Korean. In fact, an appearance is not important to learn a language, but I think it affected to me.

I have learned other language. In the case, it is totally different to learn Japanese. I have taken Greek class. At first, it was very fun to me, but it was more and more difficult. Dislike learning Japanese, I was huge motivated to learn Greek, but it didn’t come to me friendly. In spite of the big motivation, I could not accept to Greek comfortably. I wanted to be good at Greek, so I agonized why I cannot get close to Greek.

There are conclusions. First, I don’t have any background on Greek. I have not seen a Greeks. Actually, I cannot hear any Greek because I have learned Ancient Greek. Second, the language doesn’t have anything in common with Korean. Japanese and Korean use Chinese character, which helps me accepting to Japanese. However, I face all thing of Greek at first, so it comes to me unfamiliarly.

Given my feeling about the languages, Japanese is friendly and soft, and Greek is unfriendly and strict.