Why is so difficult to master/learn Engslish and Japanese at the same time? Actually I'm Indonesian. I graduated from university of Indonesia, majoring Japanese studies. Approximately four years I've been learning Japanese but my grade is still intermediate (Chuukyu). I don't know why but I think Japanese is not as easy as I thought before. Then after graduated, I think my ability in English was declining. So I decided to focus just in one language to study. I chose to improve my English back since English is more important I thought at that moment. day by day I'm improving my English, especially the vocabulary and doing the english conversation with native. But now poor that my Japanese is getting weaker. and the worst thing happened when I had an interview for my job. I passed the English interview so nicely but it otherwise for my Japanese one. I felt so shame because my major is Japanese but my English is much better than my Japanese. so, I wish that I could master/learn English and Japanese at the same time without being confused, distracted or unbalance. Perhaps it's just because the difference of both structures (English and Japanese) English main structure is actually same like Indonesian: (Subject + Predicate + Object ) otherwise Japanese structure is: (Subject + Object + Predicate) it's like a reverse structure for my own language structure. yeah, maybe that's one of the problem that often made me uncomfortable enough when speaking Japanese. too much thingking I suppose. for example when I want to say: " I think you are a smart student" in Japanese you it comes to " Anata ha atama ga ii gakusei da to omoimasu" Anata = you atama ga ii = smart omoimasu = Think However, I just sharing and I wish I could make them balance.