Articles like this push me closer and closer to buying a book to learn Japanese and signing up for classes. My niece speaks Japanese and she suggested if I help her learn Spanish she can help with Japanese. I may take her up on that
It's a written character system, not based on phonetics like hiragana (used with typical Japanese words) and katakana (typically used for foreign words). Imagine an alphabet of six thousand characters.
Articles like this push me closer and closer to buying a book to learn Japanese and signing up for classes. My niece speaks Japanese and she suggested if I help her learn Spanish she can help with Japanese. I may take her up on that
Good luck with the Kanji. You'll need it.
Is that a dialect?
It's a written character system, not based on phonetics like hiragana (used with typical Japanese words) and katakana (typically used for foreign words). Imagine an alphabet of six thousand characters.
Wow!!