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There's no real measurement of how difficult a language is. Technically, it takes upwards of 20 years for native Japanese to be considered competent in their own language, but the same can be said of all languages, and especially those that use Hanzi/Kanji. But practical use is about the same as other languages, at 2 to five years depending on the intensity of the course.
After that, phonologically Japanese is one of the easiest languages on the planet (even easier than Finnish). The grammar really isn't that hard (once you get passed "everything is a verb"), but it isn't as easy as Chinese (which is simpler but similar to English). Though Chinese is more difficult phonologically (e.g. x and sh represent two different sh sounds, like ch in German ich and sh in English English).
But for comparison's sake, even though Polish is more closely related to English, I'd say Polish is much harder than either (or Korean, or anything around the Chinese Sprachraum (a geographic region of languages sharing similar sounds, grammar, and idioms while retaining distinct, unrelated vocabulary), tones aside).
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