FCS119 The Kanji shock

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[Resender]

Ah yes the limitations of our alphabet

[Funkymonk]

Wait till he tries to spell pplz NAMES in Kanji

[nas]

From my limited knowlege of lanquages alphats and how they are formated, I really wonder why the chinese and the writing systems that it has heavy influence on like koreon and japanese doesn't have a alphabet?

[Cece]

There is Hiragana, which is a syllabic alphabet. I don't know much about how it is used. It use to be called "women's writing", probably implying that it was an easier form of writing and not a worthy form of expression for men. (What's the Japanese symbol for "eye-roll?)

[RC]

Supposedly it's so hard even for native speakers that there's a common cell phone program where you can take a picture of, say, a street sign, and it provides a translation in Hiragana or Katakana. Sometimes I think it's tradition. The rest of the time, I think they're just trying to make everyone else in the world feel dumb.

[b]

The secret to kanji is that they're all built from a fairly small list of parts. If you can remember the individual parts you can master individual kanji quickly.

[Mobiuszero]

yup, 2K is really a lot XD

[Kyla]

I'm learning japanese, and it's HARD.
And I'm only at 1st grader level, and I'm still not good at all
-___-;

But I'm half-japanese, and it's a part of my culture!
Plus, it's fun ^ ^

-宍戸 カイラ

[Some dude]

In some defense of the language, remember that individuals build a vocabulary in their native tongue of thousands of words, with not just meaning and pronunciation, but also spelling. It's just that Chinese characters are built visually much different than the Latin alphabet

[Rognik]

My Japanese teacher told me 1945 kanji is needed to be literate, remembering that that is the end of WWII.