What types of input material did you use?

Almost finished learning the hiragana. Just some of the ?ya sounds left. Then I will start katakana, and then I will check out those books on remembering the kanji. This would be much more fun if I didn't have uni. Will probably wait until my 15 week holidays before I start with kanji.

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How the fuck do you remember over 3000 kanji.

I asked a Japanese exchange student this back in high-school. He said something along the lines of, "How the fuck do you remember all the grammar and pronunciation rules of English?."

As far as I can tell it's just a whole lot of exposure and memorization since they've spent their entire lives using them. Hell, most people don't even know all of them; they just know the most common ones.

Yeah. I guess we all get one advantage. I don't have to both thinking about english rules, they don't have to bother thinking about remembering kanji.

Also I have now memorized 45 kanji. They are just the simplest ones though.

I've memorized the ones I read in doujins. I also know enough hirigana to read all the onomatopoeia.

Feels good.

Why the fuck can't japanese just use hiragana...

I know many of their words are spelled the same and mean different things in hiragana... But still... They should have thought of that when they invented words that were exactly the same..

As I understand it, Kanji is largely taken/based off of Chinese and is used to express specific things. Due to a whole lot of bullshit happening over time and linguistic puns, 機, which means "machine" also means 'The pleasure of being cummed inside".

Them crazy japs.

I get that kanji can be useful for shorthand and stuff, but why do you need hirigana AND katakana. I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I really don't get it.

katakana is used for non japanese words

And hiragana is for younger children who don't know the kanji, for furigana to help with little known kanji and for grammar aspects.

I want to know how people read chinese characters in print. Especially when they are a small size font. Like the size we are writing in. Some characters just appear as squished blobs. I imagine they could only read them by recognizing the structure of the word as a whole? Just as we do with words.

Haha. Thanks I appreciate it though.

Thinking I might switch to Chinese instead of Japanese. It's more relevant to my interests, it's more widely used and plenty of people speak it at my university. Now I guess I just need to look for a good resource on learning simplified. Probably stupid to learn tradititional before simplified.

I now know about 90. God damn this is hard work. I usually do 10 a day now. Takes like 1-2 hours to memorize 10.

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