07-13-2007, 05:37 AM
I beleive it. I was teaching intro-level Japanese for a few years and the Chinese were also shocked that we didn't start learning kanji on day 1. (It was probably a good 3 to 4 months in, after learning hiragana and katakana). And the grammar was really tough for the Chinese language natives. The Korean students I had picked up on the grammar real quickly, as it is structured very similarly to Korean.
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