Thank you for the explanation! I think this is more for making you snap your elbow and get the weight and power forward. I can imagine he will teach you how to use the body more later or that you will learn it by doing this.is it Japanese you guys speak? If I should try to learn some kind of chinese(mandarin?), Korean or Japanese. Which language do you think is easiest to learn for an Swede? 🙂
Lula, I have friends who have learned each of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. I have firsthand learning with the Korean. Short answer is it will not be easy for any of those three.
I was burned out from learning Korean when I was assigned to Germany, never learned a word in my first two years, then my wife got on my azz about learning German so I could get discounts in open air markets... so I took the first 4 semesters of University Maryland German night classes... 4 month semester condensed into 10 weeks of 2x per week 2 hrs classes at night... I metup with some German friends 6 months later and they were like WTF !!!???!!! When did you learn German? I told them I started 6 months ago. At that point, I could function instinctively, with some imperfections. With Korean, at the 6 month mark of studying full time 8 hrs classroom per day and 4 hrs homework per night...
I couldn't order food in Korean resturant in Korean to avoid starving. If I tried to ask for a date, all I would get is my azz kicked in a firsthand lesson given to me in Taekwondo for making huge mistakes that were insults.
Chinese comparatively has easier grammar and easier to put tgether stuff... but that vocabulary learning curve is STEEP and it NEVER ENDS.
Japanese is upside-down for a Euro dude for sure. You got both grammar differences and vocab learning going on at the same time... which can be some serious brain over-load. Those who stay with it catch on soon enough. It is real tough, but not a 100 out of 100 mission impossible.
Korean learning, to a working professional level is esily the worst (morst difficult) of the three. Grammar is worse than upside-down, it is backwards, sideways, and there is a grammar pattern for EVERYTHING it seems... where in the Euro languages theer is just a word to learn to plug and play. The complexity of initial grammar... rediculous. Vocab initially is WORSE as there are honorific nouns that need to be used. Sure, there are many levels of honorific with just the verbs going on... all this at same time is WAY TOO MUCH. You are a crash and burn candidate. Many do not stay with it. However, once one can get through it all and not lose their mind, Korean learning and expressinve gets real instinctive and natural to think in and operate in.