A conversation of difficulty

Japanese is less difficult that conquering the procrastination to start working on it in a regular, steady, untiring, obstinate, never failing, sturdy, hard-working fashion.
I had a conversation with a young lad the other day on the issue of "how difficult it is to learn Japanese". The same fit for Russian, French, Okinawan language, serious cooking or understanding photovoltaic cells principles. The "difficulty of the Japanese language" is part of the mystics on the language, the traditions and the way the West at least has historically related to that country. Italian is not mystic, cryptic or whatever. But Japanese is shrouded in "mystery". There is hardly any article about "Japanese things" where the regular qualificative waxing on the unscrutanibility side of things is not present. It is nothing new. When did Japan and Japanese things started being seen and reported as "mysterious"? Anyway, my young lad was piling defense lines after defenses lines for not facing the fact that procrastination was the unique frontier of him not "progressing". Among things that are difficult indeed is to understand that one needs to reach a high level of competence before getting respect, before people here start to listen to what you are saying more than how you are saying it. Until the end, your closest local partner will pinpoint at some inconsistency of your Japanese, some form you regularly miss, some accent you are still falling flat onto that shows you are still not perfect, as most everybody around. The difficulty lies here and with your procrastination much more than anything else.