"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.
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.