I'm curious. I've often heard people say that Japanese is a very difficult language to learn. I speak a few languages, and when I was younger, played around with learning it. Maybe it's because my Japanese was very primitive, but it seemed rather easy to me, mostly because it's logical and consistent.

Were those merely beginner's observations due to a lack of knowing the fullness of it, or is it in fact, relatively easy to learn to an understandable degree?

What say you?