Comment on Is it hard for native speakers of languages that use 漢字 to learn ABC as it's different to their own?

zlatiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Not really lol, both Japanese and Chinese heavily use standard 26-set alphabets nowadays

Japanese alphabets (Hiragana/Katakana) have their alphabet counterparts. Aside from L/R which is confusing (the R sound doesn’t exist in Japanese, and L is written as R), almost everything else intuitively makes sense. Chinese is almost always spelled out in Pinyin (which is in standard alphabets) for really young kids, and ppl predominantly use alphabetic keyboards for typing. If anything, the reverse is kind-of true in China, where kids are having struggle remembering how to write proper Chinese characters…

The weird pronunciations and grammar rules are probably more difficult IMO. But then these exist in other Germanic/Romance languages too (try pronouncing a G in standard Dutch or an R in French or German!)

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