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No, Japanese is not a romance language. It belongs to a different language family called Japonic, which is independent of the romance languages such as Spanish, French, and Italian.
A Japanese language school teaches Japanese (by definition).
The language spoken in Japan is Japanese, while the language spoken in the Philippines is Filipino (Tagalog) or one of the many other regional languages such as Cebuano, Ilocano, or Bicolano. Both languages belong to different language families and have distinct linguistic characteristics.
Most of the languages of the world do not belong on the European language tree, such as all of the indigenous languages of Asia Africa, Australia and the Americas. This would include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Cherokee, Navaho, etc. There are also some European languages that are not on the European language tree, such as Hungarian and Basque.
Japanese would be the hardest language to learn as a second language for someone whose first language was English. And vise versa. If Japanese if your first language then English is the hardest language to learn. Or actually it might be the easiest but only if your first language was Japanese. The hardest might be French if your first language was Japanese.
Chinese has different sounds, lettering, and meanings to their writings. Japanese is the same way but Japanese do borrow the Chinese lettering from the Chinese and but the Japanese do have their own pronunciation for it. They are still different languages.
The language that is not an Indo-European language is Japanese.
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TAGALOG AND JAPANESE IS NOT SIMILAR AT ALL. Tagalog (A branch of Filipino language) was connected to Austronesian languages, while Japanese was connected to Japonic languages. Their writing is very different to each other too. Tagalog writing was using Latin letters and was once written with Baybayin (now extinct). Japanese uses Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana. Japanese language, is pretty hard in writing; but in word construction, Tagalog is a brain-crusher.
It is offensive and inaccurate to refer to languages spoken by Asian individuals as "Ching Chong." Asia is a diverse continent with many different languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Tagalog. It is important to use respectful and accurate language when referring to different cultures and languages.
Yes, there are different sign languages used in various countries and regions around the world. Just like spoken languages, sign languages have their own unique grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. Some examples of sign languages include American Sign Language (ASL), British Sign Language (BSL), and Japanese Sign Language (JSL).
Chinese and Japanese are different and totally unrelated languages. However, they use the same script. So, it wouldn't matter. The Korean language, another unrelated languages used to use the Chinese script but they have their own writing system now.