Comments on: Why I Hate Kanji

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:47:54 +0000

I thought about interrupting japanese studies. We have to learn 50 to 80 Kanjis a week and it’s horrible. It’s more than an elementary school student has to learn in one year. But only Kanji would be manageable but grammar, vokabulary history and so on (I speak about 90 pages to read in a week)
So decide if you want to live or if you want to study Japanese. Even though I think the vokabulary we are learning is kind of unnessecairy. To learn words like “industrial relations” before even knowing how to order some food is a bit strange. In my opinion learning Japanese in a training course is much more useful than other ways are.

By: Akira

Akira — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:29:58 +0000

Well at least about 20% of the joyo kanji have only one reading so it is good thing right? It happens very often that you just get sick of looking at kanji all day long and just want to give up. But I suppose the appeal of understanding,writing,speaking, and reading a language that is very different from English wins over for me. Most Americans now a days only now english and sometimes spanish or french. But those are boring languages. Oh when will the day come when i will have memorized all the joyo kanji and be able to read fluently *sigh*. I can only remember the only joyo kanji which has 23 strokes all together. Seriously is that tough to write.鑑. I mean there is kanji for feeling, feelings, feel. There is even a kanji for “to draw up water with one’s hands”

By: Airi

Airi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:08:33 +0000

Aren’t you glad you are learning Japanese not not Chinese…? Ganbatte.

By: me

me — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:08:53 +0000

i just hate it… im studying it right now!