response: Some 3rd century Chinese texts have a few Japanese words.
original_response: You can definitely hear the Chinese influence in it if you listen.
history: I started learning Japanese a couple of years ago There does not seem to be a lot of history on Japanese language or even a date it first appeared. I know I homeschooled my daughter and she was very interested, we learned to speak some together It apparently has a lot of loan words from English, as well. Yeah, it was still pretty hard for me to learn. My daughter was much better at it. Japanese has properties like a pure vowel system and simple phonotactics. It is really hard and the writing of Japanese is even harder, The language is nice to listen to but difficult to speak Ah, I see. Well, we still don't know when it showed up in Japan. That's true. Is there anything we know about Japanese language history?
knowledge: Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century.