Comment on Do YOU consider Kanji difficult?
War5oldier@lemmy.world 1 week agoHave you ever read subtitles (日本語字幕) without pausing? Whenever I watch a non-Japanese movie, I just enable JP subs and you need a very good grasp on reading Kanji in real time since you’re reading translated dialog, and sometimes you can notice translation mistakes if you know where to look based on visual context within the scene. For Japanese movies: I sometimes enable closed captions to understand clearly what they’re saying.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 1 week ago
Once you learn the 2000-ish necessary ones, kanji will actually be easier to read than kana and even the roman alphabet, because kanji are ideograms and pictograms, meaning, you won’t have to actually read it out loud in your head, you’ll just see an idea or a picture of something. It’s like reading “car” versus seeing “🚗”.