Apparently Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn for English-only speakers (harder than Chinese), and my own experience with Chinese can tell you that the writing system is extremely hard to learn and there are no clues from the spoken language that can help you figure out how it’s written. Obviously it doesn’t affect a hypothetical scenario, but since you mentioned the language I thought it’d chime in. No argument that the Japanese language is pretty though.
I just like to think Japanese is easy. There are paterns for the presence of kanji in words, for example: 漫画, 絵画 and 映画 or 楽しい and 音楽. The words sharing the same kanji have related meanings.
Apparently Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn for English-only speakers (harder than Chinese), and my own experience with Chinese can tell you that the writing system is extremely hard to learn and there are no clues from the spoken language that can help you figure out how it’s written. Obviously it doesn’t affect a hypothetical scenario, but since you mentioned the language I thought it’d chime in. No argument that the Japanese language is pretty though.
I just like to think Japanese is easy. There are paterns for the presence of kanji in words, for example: 漫画, 絵画 and 映画 or 楽しい and 音楽. The words sharing the same kanji have related meanings.