Japanese and Korean both have straightforward rules, no tones, but highly contextual. I chose to learn Korean because Hangul is a very clean written language. Japanese writing is… if I’m gonna learn Kanji I might as well just learn Chinese since that would be more useful for my career.
As someone who has Reading Problems™ I find Chinese characters less scary than new alphabets. There’s no way to confuse letters with each other if they don’t even exist in the first place 😎
I can’t explain it, but you don’t “spell” characters and instead you read them on sight. To me, it’s hard to learn read on sight with the latin alphabet because words can look so similar. Idk, my brain is a little wonky.
Maybe? Having a set number of syllable blocks that have a set pronunciation would be easier to read than English. But the problem about building them myself (spelling) would be about the same.
Japanese and Korean both have straightforward rules, no tones, but highly contextual. I chose to learn Korean because Hangul is a very clean written language. Japanese writing is… if I’m gonna learn Kanji I might as well just learn Chinese since that would be more useful for my career.
I really wish there was a Hangul equivalent for Chinese
As someone who has Reading Problems™ I find Chinese characters less scary than new alphabets. There’s no way to confuse letters with each other if they don’t even exist in the first place 😎
Really? I’d assume it would be much more difficult to distinguish the thousands of different characters
I can’t explain it, but you don’t “spell” characters and instead you read them on sight. To me, it’s hard to learn read on sight with the latin alphabet because words can look so similar. Idk, my brain is a little wonky.
I wonder if Hangul would be easier to learn, in that case
Maybe? Having a set number of syllable blocks that have a set pronunciation would be easier to read than English. But the problem about building them myself (spelling) would be about the same.