User blog comment:Damesukekun/Song Translating and Mistranslating/@comment-82.131.132.186-20141230180138/@comment-1523675-20141231114435

U.S. Department of State says an American needs about 1000 hours of study to acquire basic German skill and 4000 hours of study to basic Japanese. Indo-European language speakers have disadvantage of learning non-Indo-European tongues. Vice versa. You know only a little part of Japanese and other East-Asian nationals speaks English though they study English as a compulsory subject at school for years. Of course I don't mean to discourage you from learning Japanese. The point is, a translator should take responsibilities of Jp-En translating seriously, not easily.