Hey r/LearnJapanese
I’m currently conducting research on the attitudes of Japanese learners towards learning kanji, and the methods they generally employ to do so, in comparison with those of Chinese learners’ attitudes and methods regarding hanzi.
Part of this research is a survey of Japanese learners of all ages, backgrounds, and proficiencies. The survey is pretty straightforward and shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. Answers are anonymous (unless you wish to leave your contact details) and will only be used for research purposes.
To complete the survey, just click this link [here](https://forms.gle/sFQ3KxvKgajREh9y5).
Your answers will help not only to identify differences in attitudes and approaches to learning characters between students of Chinese and Japanese, but also between students and teachers of both languages.
Please take part and let us know your thoughts and approaches to learning kanji!
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One confusing part is that you show pictures of handwriting when discussing writing, but I don’t think you were necessarily referring to handwriting as you have a later question about writing by hand specifically. One may have to go back and change their answers to previous questions if they were confused by this.
did it for ya. it all seem straight forward to me
When the survey asks me how important I think it is to practice writing, and I think it’s really important, but have to admit right after that I never even started to practice it. (7 years in)
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This survey has officially made me question my life choices
I can’t say I’m thrilled with Kanji but with my limited knowledge it seems to me like it’s a minmax type of situation, a high risk high reward writing system. If you read a sentence with Kanji you know it can make you read very fast and pick up meaning easily. But if you see Kanji you don’t know you stop dead in your tracks, not knowing what you’re looking at, how to read it, what it might mean.