Is anyone else here interested in learning Japanese specifically due to its usage of Kanji? In other words, has anyone else picked Japanese over Korean or Vietnamese because of its writing system? I know most others seem to learn Japanese for anime.
My first steps into kanji-learning technically stemmed from my love of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, if that counts. I loved the writing system long before learning the language properly.
If you’re interested in kanji in particular, then why don’t you learn Chinese instead? Or is it something about the way the Japanese language uses kanji?
Sure, my biggest draw to the language was just how *different* it is from English. I took a single Japanese class sort of on a whim, loved it, and I’m still learning/using it here years later.
Yes, i found it funny that what’s biggest chore for others is the selling point of Japanese for me. That said, I strived to learn multiple major East Asian languages anyway, do next were Chinese and Korean. For Korean, even though modern Koreans barely know any, I still learned Hanja as it was easier to remember words which were common with Chinese/Japanese that way.
Kanji was one of my main reasons for starting Japanese. I actually kinda learned kana in order to learn kanji from the kanji book I had.
And yes, anime was another reason. So was manga, which kinda pairs with learning kanji.
Comparing Chinese and Japanese, the Japanese text had a breathable look thanks to kana, and both kanji and kana looked visually pleasing in some fonts. And this feeling has never changed. But looking back I don’t care about learning.
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My first steps into kanji-learning technically stemmed from my love of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, if that counts. I loved the writing system long before learning the language properly.
If you’re interested in kanji in particular, then why don’t you learn Chinese instead? Or is it something about the way the Japanese language uses kanji?
Sure, my biggest draw to the language was just how *different* it is from English. I took a single Japanese class sort of on a whim, loved it, and I’m still learning/using it here years later.
Yes, i found it funny that what’s biggest chore for others is the selling point of Japanese for me. That said, I strived to learn multiple major East Asian languages anyway, do next were Chinese and Korean. For Korean, even though modern Koreans barely know any, I still learned Hanja as it was easier to remember words which were common with Chinese/Japanese that way.
Kanji was one of my main reasons for starting Japanese. I actually kinda learned kana in order to learn kanji from the kanji book I had.
And yes, anime was another reason. So was manga, which kinda pairs with learning kanji.
Comparing Chinese and Japanese, the Japanese text had a breathable look thanks to kana, and both kanji and kana looked visually pleasing in some fonts. And this feeling has never changed. But looking back I don’t care about learning.