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> For some reason, a lot of focus on Japanese, specifically That's because Japanese is a popular language to learn, especially in HN-type communities, and to l
by Zababa 5y ago
> For some reason, a lot of focus on Japanese, specifically
That's because Japanese is a popular language to learn, especially in HN-type communities, and to learn Japanese you, most of the time, have to learn Kanji
> never seen a post about learning Spanish on Hacker News
There are some https://hn.algolia.com/?q=learn+spanish https://hn.algolia.com/?q=learn+spanish. The thing is that you don't have to learn 2000 symbols to learn Spanish. I also think that many "hacker type" people consider raw memorization "boring" compared to conversation or playing around with the language.
- klodolph 5y ago> The thing is that you don't have to learn 2000 symbols to learn Spanish. You have to memorize words, though.
- Zababa 5y agoThat's true, but it's easier to do while using them. You can "read" Spanish without knowing Spanish. You can't do the same with Japanese.
- klodolph 5y agoYou can pronounce written Spanish words without knowing what they mean. However, I imagine that most people actually want to know what they are reading.
- Zababa 5y agoAlso true, although you could get the pronounciation very wrong. It happens to be a few time with English. Regardless, being able to read it make it easier. For example, search for "industria" is easier than searching for "業界", especially for text on a picture. Google translate's OCR is not great, and reproducing the drawings to get a translation is painful and takes a lot of time.