Studying Japanese is difficult, but fun


I want to say:

> Studying Japanese is difficult, but fun.

I've come up with:

> 勉強は日本語むずかし、でも楽しい。

Google Translate seems to like it ok, but is this the correct structure? Seems
like it could be a bit backwards, but having "study" at the end didn't work
out.




(You forgot an い at the end of むずかしい, but this is not the main point of my
answer).

Let's try to analyze your attempt. You say 勉強は hence you are making 勉強 the
topic, which kind of makes sense given what you want to express.

However, what follows does not really make much sense. In fact, if you try to
make a grammatical analysis of the rest of the sentence, what is 日本語 here?
There is no particle nor any other structure to precisely identify its role in
the sentence. In other words, your try is grammatically wrong.

What you probably want to do is to connect 日本語 with the 勉強 in order to express
"The study of the Japanese language", that can be done using の:

> 日本語の勉強は 。。。

Now the topic is actually "The study of the Japanese language".

The rest of the sentence is quite OK. Just add むずかしい to describe it as
difficult and then add the "but" part. I probably would use けど here rather
than でも. It sounds more natural and conversational to me, but I am not a
native speaker so let's wait for other comments.

Anyway, putting all together your sentence becomes:

> 日本語の勉強はむずかしいけど、楽しい（よ）。

(You probably can add the よ in the end for a little emphasis).

Another possibility, though maybe it goes a bit far from your attempt, is to
change it this way：

> 日本語を勉強するのはむずかしい。でも、楽しい（よ）。

Or as above with けど、 instead of 。でも、  
I put the other first as I tried to stay close to your original attempt.




(You forgot an い at the end of むずかしい, but this is not the main point of my
answer).

Let's try to analyze your attempt. You say 勉強は hence you are making 勉強 the
topic, which kind of makes sense given what you want to express.

However, what follows does not really make much sense. In fact, if you try to
make a grammatical analysis of the rest of the sentence, what is 日本語 here?
There is no particle nor any other structure to precisely identify its role in
the sentence. In other words, your try is grammatically wrong.

What you probably want to do is to connect 日本語 with the 勉強 in order to express
"The study of the Japanese language", that can be done using の:

> 日本語の勉強は 。。。

Now the topic is actually "The study of the Japanese language".

The rest of the sentence is quite OK. Just add むずかしい to describe it as
difficult and then add the "but" part. I probably would use けど here rather
than でも. It sounds more natural and conversational to me, but I am not a
native speaker so let's wait for other comments.

Anyway, putting all together your sentence becomes:

> 日本語の勉強はむずかしいけど、楽しい（よ）。

(You probably can add the よ in the end for a little emphasis).

Another possibility, though maybe it goes a bit far from your attempt, is to
change it this way：

> 日本語を勉強するのはむずかしい。でも、楽しい（よ）。

Or as above with けど、 instead of 。でも、  
I put the other first as I tried to stay close to your original attempt.

