I’m just curious. Other countries I think of like Vietnam and Korea have a lot of homonyms but have stepped away from kanji. Is there any recent news on this topic?
EDIT: For the record , I’m studying a lot. I have a about 1500 kanjis studied with vocabulary and I agree with a lot is being said. I’m just simply curious behind the reasoning and such when I thought about other countries.
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Korea stopped only stop using kanji because of their ultra-nationalistic military dictator wanted their language to be pure.
They didn’t step away because they didn’t think it wasn’t convenient anymore.
Kanji makes it very easy to process information very fast.
東京特許許可局許可局長 is much easier to understand than とうきょうとっきょきょかきょくきょかきょくちょう, for example.
Because there is absolutely no point in them doing that. Any language learner knows that as much as Kanji can be a pain in the ass to learn, once you get used to it, it is a pain in the ass NOT to have it present in a sentence. Thats from a non native language learners perspective, but for natives that are raised learning kanji, its like your experience learning your mother tongue, normal.
Arabic is considered really hard to learn, for me as a native it isnt but I do understand how hard it can be for a non native. Also the introduction of Toyo kanji killed any stance to “abolish” the use of kanji. It go simplified and made universal, then joyo kanji came and thats whats been used ever since.
Why hasn’t the west made steps to remove capital letters?
Why would they want to abolish kanji? If thing is not broken, don’t fix it
Getting rid of kanji would be really stupid. Try reading a book/newspaper written entirely in hiragana or katakana, its fucking impossible
The school system would collapse, if the Japanese would drop kanji for a more efficient writing system. They do need the kids to rote learn “stuff” for 10 years straight, or else they would have to teach them something useful. We don’t want that; of course not!
Because it is not a problem anyone growing up in Japan faces. The only people complaining about kanji are foreigners trying to learn Japanese.
For people who grow up in Japan, learning kanji in the current education system works just fine.
If you get rid of kanji then anything written before the point at which people stopped learning kanji would have to be translated or would only be available to a few specialists.