"you just need to learn 2000 kanji, bro" yea, kanji is a bitch and I still cannot wrap my head around some. Probably know a couple hundred and even then I need to check to be sure. Japanese ain't easy, however actually make an effort if you live there like with any other language.
Yeah I wish they just used katakana for everything, but at least speaking it isn't too complicated once you understand how their sentence structure works.
Wouldn't be very readable unless they added spaces too, and books/newspapers would have to be larger to fit the expanded text. You know what I mean if you've tried ever to play old games where everything is katakana because that's all they could fit on the rom at the time.
Imo they could keep a few hundred kanji for historical and syntactical reasons. In general, a native speaker should have completely mastered reading and writing by the 4th-5th grade. Any kanji that is currently taught in middle school and beyond should be dropped from the standard language.
You would lose out on a lot of context since some words just are the same. In conversation it matters not unless someone likes to be very puny, in written however I would say it would make it much harder.
No you don’t. Katakana is retarded because there are so many homonyms and Japanese has no functional punctuation and grammar structures. Kanji is critical because otherwise you’d have to read everything like 3 times.
If they prefer that, sure. But other cultures like the French despise foreigners trying to stumble through French and their dozens of redundant grammar rules.
I was going to mention that. The people of France (in general) despise 2 things more that tourists who cannot speak French:
those who try to learn a few dozen words
those from Quebec who speak "Quebecois" 😋
A guy I knew went to France for 3 months as a young man. He'd get dirty looks for his French (his family was half French & spoke it pretty well) but he'd explain he wasn't from Quebec, he was from Manitoba. Almost every time they'd go "Ah!" and immediately be nice :>
I mean, fair. At least make an attempt to speak the native language if you're going to be there for a while.
I will forgive writing it though as Kanji is HARD even for the Japanese.
"you just need to learn 2000 kanji, bro" yea, kanji is a bitch and I still cannot wrap my head around some. Probably know a couple hundred and even then I need to check to be sure. Japanese ain't easy, however actually make an effort if you live there like with any other language.
Yeah I wish they just used katakana for everything, but at least speaking it isn't too complicated once you understand how their sentence structure works.
Wouldn't be very readable unless they added spaces too, and books/newspapers would have to be larger to fit the expanded text. You know what I mean if you've tried ever to play old games where everything is katakana because that's all they could fit on the rom at the time.
Imo they could keep a few hundred kanji for historical and syntactical reasons. In general, a native speaker should have completely mastered reading and writing by the 4th-5th grade. Any kanji that is currently taught in middle school and beyond should be dropped from the standard language.
You would lose out on a lot of context since some words just are the same. In conversation it matters not unless someone likes to be very puny, in written however I would say it would make it much harder.
No you don’t. Katakana is retarded because there are so many homonyms and Japanese has no functional punctuation and grammar structures. Kanji is critical because otherwise you’d have to read everything like 3 times.
If they prefer that, sure. But other cultures like the French despise foreigners trying to stumble through French and their dozens of redundant grammar rules.
The French are cunts though.
I was going to mention that. The people of France (in general) despise 2 things more that tourists who cannot speak French:
A guy I knew went to France for 3 months as a young man. He'd get dirty looks for his French (his family was half French & spoke it pretty well) but he'd explain he wasn't from Quebec, he was from Manitoba. Almost every time they'd go "Ah!" and immediately be nice :>