Two years, ~400+ kanji (N5- N4- some others) and ~2000+ words ago I started to learn Japanese, to the point where I can read most of internet shit/not-too-simple newspapers and so on.
Would it be difficult to switch to learn Chinese now? Would I start from zero? Are the simplified characters too much of a difference?
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>~400+ kanji
>I can read most of internet shit/not-too-simple newspapers and so on.
I thought you need 1000 to 2000? How is that working out for you?
Anyway, from what I gathered, you will have a big advantage when picking Chinese up, but it's still a new language. You can learn it much faster, but you still need to learn it.
>see simplified hanzi
>day ruined
yes, 400 kanji seems too low
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>Would it be difficult to switch to learn Chinese now? Would I start from zero?
Mandarin is a totally different language, as everybody knows a big chunk of Japanese vocabulary comes from Middle Chinese but that's it, sometimes you wouldn't even know two words are related because of the drastically different phonology and how the different words evolved
>Are the simplified characters too much of a difference?
well, you tell me, try to read for example a Wikipedia or a newspaper article in Japanese/Italian and then read the Simplified Chinese version (if available) then see how much of it you understood
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>t.japanese
I have zero knowledge of simplified characters, and when I see their newspaper, I can guess maybe 10% of the content while I can understand 40% of the context if it's written with traditional characters
>I have zero knowledge of simplified characters
You don't know 鉄?
>most common twitter kanji is 笑
wwww
I'm talking about simplified chink characters used in mainland
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>Two years, ~400+ kanji
well you stand no chance of learning Chinese either, just give up languages nigga
now that's ugly and doesn't even make it easier, especially the 車 just disgusting
>Two years, ~400+ kanji
posts like these are inspiration for other anons who think they are doing bad at learning
What do the triangles in the font mean? Is it where you lift off your brush if you were to draw it?
If you're speaking about this, it's just the end of the stroke, it would kinda look like that if you write it correctly with a brush
Yes, that's what I meant. But then I get confused about pic related. Do the Chinese seriously write this from bottom to top?
Serifs.
no idea about Chinese, but if they do they're probably retarded
I just noticed that the 言 also has right to left. So it's probably not stroke direction.
I wonder what the rule is then.
So it serves no purpose? How is it determined which part of the strokes receives which kind of serif?
The purpose is aesthetics.
I prefer the simplified radicals, they're less of a visual clusterfuck. Some characters are much more legible too, compare 艺术 to 藝術, that shit is just torture without a giant font. 车 and 东 are just nonsense though.
>Two wasted years
Just watch w/ subtitles lmao
>>tfw you can't learn Japanese
all strokes of black ink paint brush
huh so I guess they just have a standard set of strokes, thanks
What character is that
笑 is the kanji for "laugh"
On the internet, it's also commonly shortened as "w" and basically means "lol".
google translate says it sounds like "emi"
Why is it shortened to w?
Japanese grammar is very nice, but their writing system is FUBAR
400 kanji is on average 1 kanji in 2 days. That's not how you learn a language.
Japanese has more than one reading for most kanjis.
This one has 4, one of them is emi.
But the one they use to expressing that they're laughing is "warau", which is shortened as just "w". Or wwwwwww which is basically the same as "hahahaha" or "lololo"
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pic related
Long read, but this user says learning Mandarin isn't worth it because you inevitably deal with the Chinese
>two years
>~400+ characters
Are you legitimately retarded or something