ehal256

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   by ehal256 13y ago

   Hangul is great, but Japan has a 99% literacy rate as well. With a good method, e.g. Heisig, learning the characters is not very difficult at all.
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   by ehal256 13y ago

   I mostly use the dictionary on my phone. I can get by with a paper one, but it's a bit slower.
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   by ehal256 13y ago

   Bad in what way exactly? Hiragana and Katakana are easier to pick up, because there is more burden placed in learning each individual word. With the baseline investment to learn the Kanji in place, each new word is just a composition of ch
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   by ehal256 13y ago

   Chinese characters (and similar writing systems) do have certain advantages versus alphabetic systems though. The smallest unit of writing has more information embedded in it. You've got a decent chance of guessing the meaning of a c