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Originally Posted by Ichiban_jay
especially since the Japanese stole a chunk of Chinese as their own. 3-types of writing in Japanese... Insane, who would want such a complex language?
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FWIW, the Japanese came up with types two and three to make it easier to (1) deal with more subtle grammar and (2) foreign words. With these two additional alphabets, which are very easy to learn, they now only have to use about 1,800 - 2,000 Kanji pictograms.
That said, while it is certainly more complicated than the roman alphabet, it's nothing like Chinese in terms of difficulty.
(But you probably already know this as your name is Number 1 Jay, Nihongo de...)