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.

    • @tisamantis@lemmygrad.ml
      3•2 years ago

      Doesn’t look like this I can find this book online. Guessing it’s aimed more at learners of Korean tho.

      Wiktionary entries tend to list pronunciations of Chinese characters across multiple languages. (example page https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/丘), but using it is a pain, even if it’s informative.

      I’ve not studied Japanese in a while, but last time I did, I’ve almost completely given up leaning Kanji and went back to learning words instead. Pronunciation in Japanese is a mess. (湯桶読み and 重箱読み words make me want to commit sudoku. also, wtf are words like 白髪 even called?)

      itazuraneko is a good resource btw

    • 洩矢（もりや） 諏訪子（すわこ）
      2•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.