A REASON I LIKE KANJI!

Love your kanji ladies and gents! It's good for you :D

please send me any kanji questions! I'll try and answer and maybe make video :)

Incase I didn't really say it, the sentence was Kyou no umi wa shizukada which means today's ocean was calm/quiet!

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[marenfarroparamore]

I want to learn Japanese very badly and my friend speaks it fluently because she IS Japanese.. she keeps telling me it's going to be SO hard and now I dont know if I even should... thoughts?

[KaxyzKoi]

@marenfarroparamore I think instead of discouraging you, you should ask her to help! Japanese isn't an impossible language to learn, and is especially not any more difficult than any other language in terms of speaking it. In fact, speaking Japanese may be easier than a lot of other languages! If you practice the kanji, they aren't all that difficult either. Ask your friend to practice speaking with you once you get the basics~ It's a good resource :) Good luck!

[marenfarroparamore]

@KaxyzKoi Okay! Thank you very much! It's such an interesting dialect I always find myself wishing I could understand so why not you know? :)

[KaxyzKoi]

@marenfarroparamore No problem :) Actually I dialect is a different way of speaking within a language, such as the people in osaka have a different dialect of Japanese than those in Tokyo, so when referring to Japanese, it's just a language :) and yeah why not!? You totally can :D go for it /o/

[QuilavaKing]

When writing strictly in Hiragana, they do use spaces. I see it all the time when playing games, like pokemon, in Japanese.

[KaxyzKoi]

@QuilavaKing yeah I've played pokemon in Japanese too :) but thats because that game is for little kids ^^ i mean technically speaking, its not fully literate because kids that age can't even read enough kanji to be able to read a full newspaper really. Kanji is still a necessity ^^

[marenfarroparamore]

@KaxyzKoi NOw I feel stupid ;D Hehehe oh well we all have those days ... Shweet!

[hcm9999]

@thephilosopherkartik

But kanji has some advantages. It can make reading easier, somehow. If you know the meaning of one kanji, you can more or less deduct the meaning of all words that use that kanji.

[hcm9999]

Japanese could be written in ローマ字 (alphabet). The sentence you used would be: kyō no umi wa shizuka da. Just like English you would separate the words with spaces.

[hcm9999]

@thephilosopherkartik "So many adult Japanese can't read a newspaper without an electronic dictionary"?? I am sorry but where did you get that?? To my knowledge Japan has one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

But I agree with you about kanji not being efficient. Some intellectuals actually defend the abolition of kanji. Korean was once written with kanji, but they managed to abolish it, replacing with hangul.