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Huh, I have never known anyone to want spaces in Chinese or Japanese. I have studied Japanese for quite a while and I've never missed spaces; and although I've
by microcolonel 9y ago
Huh, I have never known anyone to want spaces in Chinese or Japanese. I have studied Japanese for quite a while and I've never missed spaces; and although I've not really learned much Chinese, the thought has never crossed my mind when reading what little I can.
Ask even a native, and they'll tell you that characters are a big part of the problem (though less of a problem in Chinese than in Japanese).
- vacri 9y agoI've been learning Mandarin for about a year... and I find it much easier to read with spaces. Maybe once you're fluent it's easier, but as a learner the spaces are really helpful. Another confusing item in learning the language is that so many people are named after things, so sometimes it's not obvious in a sentence that you're talking about a person rather than an object and you have to reparse the sentence a few times. Obviously the language works because there's a giant country using it without people constantly having to second-guess each other, but as a learner, it's one of my pain points.