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I Want To Learn Japanese And Chinese But The Writing Systems Are So Intimidating - Blog Posts

7 years ago

Reading in different languages

Spanish: couldn't be easier, we can tell exactly how to pronounce a word based on its spelling

Russian: ok, we have to memorize where the stress falls on every word because that changes pronunciation completely, but other than that we're good!

Arabic: ok the vowels aren't really written but at least we have the consonants so we can figure out how to say it with practice and memorization

Chinese: well now we have to memorize the pronunciation of every character that gives us pretty much no clues for how to say it, but at least every character only has one reading

Japanese: AAAAAAHHHHHHHH-


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