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Date: Sunday, 4 July 2004 18:02 (UTC)Japanese is essentially tone-deaf ancient Chinese spoken backwards.
Japanese is essentially 16th-century Chinese, 17th-century Portuguese, 18th-century Dutch, 19th-century French and 20th-century English with an abhorrence of consonant clusters.
Japanese is essentially Classical Chinese with a second helping of vowels.
This is going to take a while to get through.