So I’m currently learning Chinese at school and self studying Japanese at home, but I’m wondering if learning both is detrimental or anything? Cause kanji and hanzi are very similar Thanks in advance
Yes it will be difficult for you. You are now splitting your time between two tasks that have very little synergy.
If you are actually a Chinese person, who grew up in China and went through their entire education system, you have some nice advantages in learning Japanese.
If you are just taking Chinese, you don’t carry those advantages.
I studied Chinese in college to a point and understand the difficulty of the language to some extent.
From that point of view, I think you shouldn’t learn two languages at the same time because you may end up halfway through both.
Kanji and hanzi can have the same meaning or different meanings, and that does not create that much synergy in your language learning.
yes, not because you’ll get them confused, but because it’s hard to study any two languages at the same time. If people get burned out studying one, it’s even more likely it’ll happen with two
Establish a firm foundation in one before then starting on the other, if you want to capitalize on the benefits of the similarities and minimize the disadvantages.
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Yes it will be difficult for you. You are now splitting your time between two tasks that have very little synergy.
If you are actually a Chinese person, who grew up in China and went through their entire education system, you have some nice advantages in learning Japanese.
If you are just taking Chinese, you don’t carry those advantages.
I studied Chinese in college to a point and understand the difficulty of the language to some extent.
From that point of view, I think you shouldn’t learn two languages at the same time because you may end up halfway through both.
Kanji and hanzi can have the same meaning or different meanings, and that does not create that much synergy in your language learning.
yes, not because you’ll get them confused, but because it’s hard to study any two languages at the same time. If people get burned out studying one, it’s even more likely it’ll happen with two
Establish a firm foundation in one before then starting on the other, if you want to capitalize on the benefits of the similarities and minimize the disadvantages.