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Originally Posted by Harumaki
- Kanji knowledge we will never be able to understand. Since Japanese see kanji as words/meaning, but we Western people see Kanji as a symbol with a reading. Think about it, and if you understand what I said here, you will see how enormous the difference is between a native Kanji-reader and non-native...
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Just out of interest, why do you think we will never be able to understand this Kanji knowledge?
I am a westerner but through exposure to enough of a certain Kanji I can start to see their meanings rather than just a "symbol with a reading".
Please give examples of your experience, because I am genuinely interested as to why your kanji experience is so vastly different to mine.
Why is it that you can't see meaning?
(Also I am interested because the way you wrote your post made it seem as though this specific type of Kanji knowledge has been some kind of magical entity which the Japanese people have just acquired through being Japanese and that no one else can have it... At least, that's how I read it anyway)