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just curious.
After all, there are lots of people here learning Japanese here, and I'm OK with romaji actually.
As for the kanji version, I'm thinking of going for the Chinese language first.
Any other learners here?
Thanks!
Just wanted to know, that's all. xd
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Chinese is completely different from "the kanji version."
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Why are you learning Japanese via romaji? gonk That's the wrong way to go about it! Learn your hiragana and katakana first. ><" It will definetely help you in the future.
For Kanji, as sockss mentioned, it's not exactly the same as Chinese. They may look the same, and some characters do have similar meanings, but in reality, Japanese is still a whole different language.
Don't expect too many similarities between the two languages.
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I know chinese....
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Gosh...
I guessed it would be easier to learn romaji first razz
Anyway thanks for the tip biggrin
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You don't learn Romaji! Romaji is literally Roman characters! As in, our alphabet!! If you think you're good at Japanese because you understand Romaji you are VERY much mistaken!!
Kanji isn't a version of Japanese! It's one of their writing systems!! 0__0
Learning Chinese in an attempt to make it easier to learn Japanese is like learning French to make it easier to learn German! Just because they use the same characters doesn't mean they're the same language!
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~Just don't lie to yourself~
You've just been mocked by a disembodied pair of legs...
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I'm studying Chinese studies at university. Learning Chinese doesn't necessarily make it easier to learn Japanese. (By the way, I'm learning both Chinese and Japanese. My 1st major is Japanese studies, my 2nd is Chinese studies.)
First of all, regarding pronounciation and grammar Chinese and Japanese are very different languages.
In addition to that, even if both languages use Kanji/Hanzi, the characters are still different. Mainland China uses simplified Chinese characters whereas Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao use traditional characters. The majority of the simplified characters are totally different from the Kanji used in Japan. And even some traditional characters differ from those used in Japan.
Examples:
country
traditional Chinese character: 門
simplified Chinese character: 门
Japanese character: 門
dragon
traditional Chinese character: 龍
simplified Chinese character: 龙
Japanese character: 竜
to study
traditional Chinese character: 學
simplified Chinese character: 学
Japanese character: 学
As you can see, sometimes Chinese characters might be helpful, but often they aren't. Also, learning thousands of Chinese characters only to learn those ~2000 that are officially used in Japan doesn't make a lot of sense.
But still, if you wanna learn Chinese because you wanna learn Chinese then have fun 3nodding
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