throwaway66554

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   by throwaway66554 6y ago

   >Or, more quantitatively, the Joyo Kanji has 364 simplified characters out of 2,136 (~17%) [1] while the mainland China simplified probably about 2,000 out of 7,000 common characters (~28%) [2]. It's 17% and 28%, but much, much high
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   by throwaway66554 6y ago

   >Uh, both Japan and Chinese use different simplified glyphs. Wrong. Though there are divergences, Chinese in mainland China use simplified Chinese characters ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_char
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   by throwaway66554 6y ago

   Because when you learn Japanese, you have to learn kanji, the more traditional strokes (non-simplified), both Japanese and Chinese sounds, and the grammar is closer to Korean (and closer pronunciation for a lot of words). So, it's bett
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   by throwaway66554 6y ago

   >Learning Chinese is like learning Latin before learning a Romance language. >The added benefit is that Chinese isn’t a dead language. I wouldn't go that far. It's more like learning Greek and hearing many of the same root w