The Nihongo Speakers thread, if you'd like to practice Japanese, here's your place!

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Norris2k said:

VGPolyglot said:

RingoGaSuki said:

I'd highly recommend KanjiDamage (link in the first post), breaks down the Kanji into their radicals and makes them like an alphabet and so very easy to remember. Does it all humorously too, so that's even better! :)

I also must add that learning the stroke oreder is essential. It makes memorizing easier and teaches the proper way to draw a character.

22 phonemes versus 36 in English, 37 in French, so a massive amount of words sounds like each other. b -  at least 2000 kanji versus 26 caracters. c - no passive vocabulary or basic understanding the way you have from a latin language to another, or from anything to English.

 

Actually we have 52 characters considering the capital letter of each form. So learning it is like learning Hiragana or Katakana. But reading Hiragana and Katakana is much easier than english with it being fully phonetic. Just because someone learns english doesn't mean they can read 'Phone' and know what says, or 'That' 'Pterodactyl' 'Name' etc, we have a million and 1 rules for reading, for natives it's fine but It'd say by the time you can read english fluently you'd know 2000 kanji doing a bit everyday.