[Release] JaPSPanese - practice your hiragana & katakana

[Marmotta]

Korean is even worse. They adapted most of their characters from Chinese Kanji. If you want to learn an Asian language, then start off with Japanese. Learn Katakana and Hiragana and you will be able to play lots of imports. Kanji is scarce in Japanese, you can usally tell what's going on as long as you can read the kana/hira parts of it.

I'd have to disagree. Both alphabets are of course originally adapted from Chinese, but now Korea almost exclusively uses their own set of characters (Hangul), which have themselves been simplified over time and are a lot more similar to a roman alphabet - although if you want to delve into ancient texts, that's fine by me . Whereas in Japanese - although everything can be written and read in hiragana and katakana [and I wish it was] - kanji (the Chinese characters) still play a major role in the language and 2,000 are required to be known for basic fluency. Whatsmore, Japanese kanji will often have a Japanese and Chinese pronunciation depending on whether they're spoken on their own or as part of a word e.g. on its own the character for "new" is "atarashii", but it also forms part of "shinkansen" (the bullet train)along with the kanji for iron and [tree] trunk.

As for Korean grammar, I have no basis for comparison...

[matsuura]

Incorrect. Kanji are Chinese characters that each stand for an word or phrase. Japanese use Kanji quite frequently in games and other media. Katakana and Hiragana are easy to learn, but Kanji is a bitch. There are over 50,000 Kanji characters...

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Incorrect.. There are over 50,000 Chinese characters while only 2,500+ are used in Japaneses, where as 1,950 more or less, are commonly used. Chinese characters can be that of 4 different types of representations where Japaneses can be only that of 2, Visual and/or Ideographic(Abstract concept, hence, a noun.) In conjunction with it's counter parts, grammatical efficiencies, etc, They(the kanjis) signify my overall jyst of what is going on... :thumbup:

[matsuura]

I'd have to disagree. Both alphabets are of course originally adapted from Chinese, but now Korea almost exclusively uses their own set of characters (Hangul), which have themselves been simplified over time and are a lot more similar to a roman alphabet - although if you want to delve into ancient texts, that's fine by me . Whereas in Japanese - although everything can be written and read in hiragana and katakana [and I wish it was] - kanji (the Chinese characters) still play a major role in the language and 2,000 are required to be known for basic fluency. Whatsmore, Japanese kanji will often have a Japanese and Chinese pronunciation depending on whether they're spoken on their own or as part of a word e.g. on its own the character for "new" is "atarashii", but it also forms part of "shinkansen" (the bullet train)along with the kanji for iron and [tree] trunk.

As for Korean grammar, I have no basis for comparison...

Hiragana is everything a kanji is not, same goes for katakana with the exception of it being most of the time, foreign. Considering you NEVER see a japanese phrase full of katakana, you can easily notice, katakana is kanji, but foreign and not borrow, just a shorthand, which I guess is borrow, just broken down...