• Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, hirigana and katakana are easy to learn as alphabets with phonetic symbols, but as soon as the kanji w/ chinese loaned symbols starts god help you

    • Abraxiel
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      2 years ago

      Hiragana and katakana are the alphabets

    • constellation [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Japanese has fewer than 2000 kanji. That's it. Once you've learned those, you're done.

      Chinese has 5000 hanzi if you want to read a newspaper. 10,000 if you want to be able to read. Keep going, literate Chinese can read 50,000.