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Originally Posted by WoHenNi
漢字 is extremely useful, I find.
If it were exempt from the Japanese language, I believe adding spaces in sentences would be necessary, otherwise reading any document in ふりがな would be a nightmare.
While many claim that the language is harder to learn because of 漢字, I think they're not learning it with the correct perspective. Each 漢字 is like the equivalent of a word (sometimes two words), and if you look at it like that, it's just like opening the dictionary every day and picking out five words in English to learn -- then using them in a sentence.
If you do that with 漢字 (plus stroke excercises), it's a path to success. Great language and a great writing system, me thinks.  |
Well, if kanji were abandoned, I'd imagine Japanese would need a new writing system like Korean has with Hangul. Kana alone would be really confusing.