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

[Norris2k]

ArchangelMadzz said:

Norris2k said:

It was my overall opinion about the efficiency of learning stroke order for western people, when the real challenge is to learn vocabulary. So the way I put "26 versus 2000" seems like a comparison, but I mean remembering words that are a combination of  2000 kanji is a magnitude harder than to learn another set of rules for the same limited, life long known set of characters.

I was more thinking of the perspective of a 日本語の人 learning english. Not a person with a roman/german native tongue :) 

In this perspective I agree. It's very hard for Japanese people to get spelling and pronounciation. I even have the impression that a lot of Japanese can't see a mispel, something similar to dislexia, perhaps because they are used to these big blocks of strokes surrounded by hiragana/katakana.