| lolita said: ^^^ Ugh no thanks. It's over 2000 "letters" or "images". You need to know so many just to read a book. It's rediculous! Seriously, the people who thought of that writting system weren't really thinking about making it simple and practical. ~_~ Not very bright, imo. Now the king and scholars that created the Korean writing system were intelligent! Much easier than to remember 1000+ letters and takes a few days to memorize. Call me lazy, I just can't be bothered! XD |
You don't have to learn all the kanji's in one sitting O.o
Hiragana is the foundation, like the alphabet. You can have only hiragana and have Japanese functioning, kanji is something extra that only lets you write faster (think of it like an abrivation) and is necessary when you don't use spaces (which you normally don't do in Japanese).
I'll be teaching with only hiragana, so you only need to remember 26 "images" (damn, you're starting to sound like that philosopher with the Chinese room).
I might start to include some kanji, but that's later down in the road.
The basic kanji's are really memorable and easy to learn. The harder kanji's aren't unique, they're just different combinations of the basic kanji's or radicals, and you don't really need to know them if you just want to read some shonen manga or get through Japan.
Here this will make it more understandable:
http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/
See how everything is just a combination? I don't know anything about Korean, but if the 1000 images are all unique, THAT'S more of a pain in the ass O.o all I have to do with Kanji is remember the combinations of the radicals, and the context and definitions help too. If it's something about god, it'll usually have the same symbol:
祈る pray
いのる
神社 jinja (the shrine for Shinto)
じんじゃ
神 god
かみ
See how they have the same symbol on the left? And the symbols on the right are used commonly too. Like for jinja
神社
the symbol on the right （土）of the underlined means soil. So I just take it as god's territory.
Don't give up!!!!
Here's some GAR music to harden your resolve.
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