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12-06-2009, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SceptileMaster View Post
I disagree that it's the same with our long words. Since a foreign learner learns how to spell every word they learn in English and most native English speakers just seem to pick it up I have noticed that non-native English speakers who learnt formally are generally good spellers.

Also most English speakers I know frequently get some of the basics wrong but I think that's somewhat dependant on where and how you grew up (maybe, I can't be sure).
This isn`t because it isn`t sight reading - it`s because it`s not familiar as it`s a second language. A native speaker would not pick it up either if they had not spent their childhood studying spelling and phonics. Just as a Japanese child is not going to just know kanji without having gone through years of study in school.
After some time and a fair amount of exposure to English and English spelling, learners can also just "pick it up" when it comes to spelling.

Whether people realize it or not, as a native speaker you do have years of study in your native language under your belt simply by having gone to school. With a second language, you do not have this level of schooling. Kanji comes no more naturally to a native Japanese than English spelling comes to a native English speaker. It`s all a result of having spent years and years studying and practicing in school.

Hatsuto...
I don`t even know what to say to your message but... Using as many kanji as you can possible push into your writing isn`t really the best thing and is very very unnatural. Perhaps you should work on your grammar a bit more before using kanji for every single possible thing.


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