I can remember some hiragana and katakana characters. If the two languages are similar enough, maybe I could learn Chinese easier…

    • Samubai@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m surprised there is so much kana in that sample.

      Also, there is this book with the premise that there is a stem vocabulary, similar to Italian and Spanish that learners can use to gain at least a basic understanding of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean through kanji. I wonder what your opinion is about it. I’m learning Japanese. I’m low level though, probably between N4-N5, but I can understand context cues relatively well. My vocab is low.

      • 洩矢（もりや） 諏訪子（すわこ）@lemmygrad.ml
        31·
        2 years ago

        because this word is from China. But don’t forget that Japan is a independent nation, japanese needed to talk before they touched China, so they had created thousands of words before they could learn from China.凄（sugo,qi1）强（tsuyo,qiang2）人（hito,ren2）夜（yoru,ye4）最(motto,zui4）they are completely different right?and you must learn this words at startup. when you finally find out the original words and grammars, you can learn many advanced words from China.