There are people in this earth who can be able to read this ? Do they have alien blood ?

that's because their most basic alphabet Kanji has TWO FUCKING THOUSAND LETTERS THATS 2000 LETTERS COMPARED TO 26

I don't get why they're so stubborn and keep using these retarded system. As if doing a phonetic alphabet was complicated

There are only 46 hiragana characters

But using a phonetic alphabet IS complicated. Just look at the diacritic explosion that is Vietnamese.

A lot of them are similar desu

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I could read newspapers when i was 12 at least

There's a book that can teach you to recognise them in three hours (reproducing them from memory is a bit harder). It's a pretty good read because it uses mnemonics that you can apply anywhere.

>chinese
>50000 characters
>japanese
>2000 characters

I was reading articles in papers when I was three, as well as most of people who do not use bizarre """writing""" such as yours.

learning nip was one of the worst decisions I made, now that i've grown out of anime and weeb shit i spent hours learning a language i have no use for(there's probably around 5 jobs in the entirety of england that require japanese)

Should've learnt something useful with those hours

The trick to reading moon runes is to squint your eyes, mate.
Show me any moon runes in an image and I'll prove it by reading them, go on.

What'a the name of that book?

It's not an alphabet though.

btw it's 2500 that are commonly used in newspapers, there are much more kanji
and that's not the end of it
first kanji reading
木
it can be read as
ki
ko
moku
boku
second kanji has
rin
hayashi
and the last one has
shin
mori

there are kanji that have 4-6 readings

unironically hangul is a very good script, it's the one thing koreans actually did well in inventing

Just sing that ABC song you learn in kindergarten over and over again, not too hard.

Say anything, but the most retarded languages are ones having gender.

Jesus Christ, do you think that's normal? I learned how to read when I was 3, twelve feels like a century away in child time

mine has it and its not retarded at all

goodreads.com/book/show/1005212.Remembering_the_Kana

same thing if you can't understand the meaning

so because most kanji have 2 to 4 readings on average you actually have to learn around 9000 readings to memorize 2500 kanji

>it takes japs 12 years to learn how to read

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I learned how to read by age of 7

What do you mean? I understood what I was reading, I started writing because of that. It started with car company names like Fiat and Honda, then I got a little booklet with hundreds of race cars and started associating coming before that's reading and comprehending what's being read.

It is inferior, but in Chinese it makes sense. In Japanese it is turbo retarded.

Reminder to thank King Sejong of Joseon for realizing it was bullshit in the 13th century and ordering the creation of the Korean 한글 system.

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I always got extremely confused by this, I always did shitty on the exams because I was confused on when to use the onyomi reading or the kunyomi reading

context matters, plus if you know the words then it shouldn't be a problem if you don't then you always should first use onyomi and look up the kanji to be certain since there are also kunyomi or other special readings
for example
師走
december
shiwasu

>those try-hard annoying gaijins
I should've said that I could read and understand what major quality papers says when i was 12
it's all so tiresome

based koreans perfecting characters as well as plastic surgery

Arguably more than that. Afaik, by the end of highschool they are still learning it, and that's to be an average reader.
It's a funny world where you can show a word to a japanese working adult and he might not be able to gain any information from it. Functionnally, I guess it's no different than not knowing the meaning of an english word, like "anathema", but at least any english speaker can have a shot at pronouncing it.

BASED KOREANS

SAVIOR OF THE ASIANS RACE

SMARTEST ASIAN PEOPLE

A Japanese kid might know that 禾 means grain, that刂 is a sword (radical), and that 子 means kid. That doesn't mean he knows what 利子 means when he sees it in a paper.
Same way that you were able to pronounce I, N, T, E, R, and S, but when you read "interest" in an economic article you had no clue what it meant as a kid, thus in a sense weren't really reading the paper.

I understood very well what was written there asides the very few very specific socio-political terms, which took me 5 seconds to ask my dad or grandma for the meanings.

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>korea
bruh... look at this dude.....

Because tradition. "Son, I spent 15 years wasting my youth learning our retarded writing system. So did my father, and his father before him. So by god you're gonna do the same thing too!" (Though it has to be said they've already simplified it a lot.)

Fact: before the arrival of the printing press (and regularity of kanji forms), nobody could actually read anything, they just mumbled a bit, nodded as if they understood, and tried to guess the meaning. (That's why East Asian cultures are so focused on mutual agreement.) Take pic related. Was it """written""" by a hyperactive toddler who found the ink stone, or a demented 99 year old? What does it even say? Who knows! Definitely not the Japanese.

I mean, even the Koreans gave up on Hanzi ages ago. One of the few times where they actually did a smart thing.

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Not even themselves
youtube.com/watch?v=vourr7_SM4g

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There is no need. As an outsider/weeaboo/consumer of Japanese media, you might think there is, but it's your problem, not theirs.

If their system had an noticeable impact on their productivity or capacity to communicate, they would intervene, but otherwise there is no need, it works good enough.

If tomorrow the Japanese government makes up a new writing system or dictates that from now on, only the 2 syllabaries are to be used, no one is gonna listen. When it comes to language, the uses by the actual speakers has more weight than whatever instructions are prescribed by the linguistic authorities.

Too bad Korean sounds almost as bad as Chinese.

yeah korean fucking sucks
今国語が大嫌いだ

紺国語が大嫌いだ*

If you're already phoneticizing your characters, you might as well go full Latin like Pinyin.

I find Korean so soft and better sounding than Chinese and Japanese. It's like Asia's French, the consonants are very subtle. Chinese and Japanese truly sound alien, the first because of the tones and the second because of how mechanical it is.

>omg why don't they get rid of kanji?
>dude just use roman alphabet lmao

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韓国語が大嫌いだ*

>a fucking leaf
Most of you can't even speak English properly what the fuck would you know.

Look up Korean written in Latin script, it's impossible to read if you don't know Korean vowels, it's too different.
They have i, a and e, but also 2 kinds of u and 2 kinds of o, not to mention vowels that are made from combinations.

youtube.com/watch?v=KfH8t5ZFhDU

Some Japanese say Kyushu dialect sounds similar to Korean.

Maybe because of geographically closer each other.

Come on, you just have to memorize all the pronunciations of the 2000 BASIC (lol) kanji, it's nothing special
And before that, all the hiragana and katakana
It couldn't get easier than that, right? Right?

Those people are retarded and don't realize it. For Japan to adopt Latin script it would be necessary to restructure the language from zero because it would be impossible to read it.

Learning how to pronounce is not much different from memorizing any word in any other language, and remembering kanji gets easier the more you know.

>studies like a robot all day
>goes well in tests
Okay, buddy. At least you guys have a massive average IQ but it still doesn't change the fact that having several readings for the same kanji is retarded. It's only purpose is to make puns in anime, apparently.

It's amusing when people that don't even learn the language say retarded shit like this.
>having several readings for the same kanji is retarded
That literally doesn't matter because you will know what they are talking about from context, baboon.

>天下の四民士農工商とわかれ,各其職分を
つとめ
Something like this?

>monkey is calling me a monkey

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>Homophone ridden language
""I am groot"" tier

>15 years
it only takes 5 months at the most.

I've learned kana in under 3 days of casual evening reading of stuff

Nobody's really able to read it and all meaning is ambigious, which is why they've only been able to produce self-help tier aphorisms and have had to steal real philosophy from the west.

"Live, laugh, love" -Confucius

>english word, like "anathema"
a)Thats Greek, not English
b)Everyone who knows at least basics of Christianity knows what it means.

I had to learn Japanese at school. You invest all that time learning hiragana and katakana and then you come to kanji and realise it was a complete waste of fucking time.

At least we could have learned something nice sounding and useful like Czech or Lithuanian.

If it's not English, why is it in the English dictionary?

God I hate you people

t.gay faggot boy that is too lazy to spend 3 months (actually you could learn them all in less than a month) learning all the kanji needed.

what lvl are u on tibia huehuehue

Again,
>we could have learned something nice sounding and useful

He's right though, it's used in English in a slightly different sense than the Greek original, so it's basically become an English word.

You can divide all of the words in a language by their origin, but that doesn't make them not part of that language.

Also, the greek word is technically ᾰ̓νᾰ́θεμᾰ, not anathema.

CULTURE BAD

That's a badly designed romanization system, not a problem with the idea of romanization.

Blind people in China read via Pinyin-derived Braille and they can read at full speed.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUSLIMS CAN'T MAKE EUROPEANS ASSIMILATE BUT WE SHOULD MAKE JAPANESE REPLACE THEIR LANGUAGE

>just have to look up kanji
>literally every fucking noun in the language, composed from 2-4 permutations of 206 characters, of which a third are combinations of 2 simpler ones themselves.
Fuck off.

>Koreans did bad when they made actually more or less sensible alphabet

Simplification is even fucking worse. The brass inscriptions have well distinct shapes that you immediately recognize. Modern chinese calligraphy destroys the depiction and you must memorize not the figure but the stroke's shape. Once again when they digitized the characters, the type was based on the stroke shape, not the overall figure, so they killed the distinctive simmetry of some characters. Later the chinks snap and decide to delete even more strokes so the word becomes even more abstract and loses meaning.

This is literally 1984 tier bullshit. Nobody handwrites anymore anyways, just fucking use an alphabet or a doodle for that.

China and Japan should be nuked

Brainlet

>falling for the heisig meme in 2019
lmao
Enjoy your mnemonics while I just read shit.