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Date: 2016-03-07 07:50 pm (UTC)* In Japanese, second person narrative is received as very rude/obnoxious/hectoring.
* German has real problems with some English conditional tense constructions: as you will have realized, English has got this tinker-toy toolkit for constructing tenses that simply don't exist in German.
* Gender issues (of course) -- many languages lack a neuter/gender-indeterminate
There are probably other gotchas; is it possible to write a story in English that is a universal pain in the ass to translate? ;-)