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This actually did happen in the early days of video games. Due to software limitations at the time, they couldn't use kanji. As a result, they implemented spacing to tell the words apart.

NerdBryant

As a french person learning japanese, I have very quickly gotten to a point where it's much easier for me to read sentences that include kanjis than sentences entirely in hiragana/katakana.
Not only does it help a lot to notice where words begin and where they end, but it's also better to identify particles and flexional endings, meanwhile hiraganas only are a jumbled mess.

Also kanjis are beautiful, I think it would be a shame to remove them from japanese.

math

With Kanji: 母は花が好き
No Kanji: 😂😂😂😂すき

Edit: Edited the kanji out because you guys wouldn't shut up about it

nachorodriguez

Good point, but there is an even better one: Japanese has way too many words that only differ in accent, so it would be much more difficult to know which of what words you are actually reading from the kana alone. They are all super common words and in many contexts, they can be used interchangeably, so you would always have to guess. In spoken Japanese, you can tell from the context and accent, but in written form, it would be a massive pain. The addition of spaces would lessen the problem shown in this video, but you would have to add some hideous accents marks to the text to deal with the homophones.

NatiiixLP

Every time i'm discouraged from studying kanji, thinking it pointless, I'm reminded of this video and suddenly I have the motivation again. Very succinct way to get the point across, lol
😅

pigurl.

As a Japanese, it is not too difficult to read sentences from which kanji characters have been removed. The system of writing Japanese using hiragana, katakana and spaces is actually the method used in books for kids, or in old video games.
The removal of kanji from the Japanese language would actually have an impact on learners of Japanese, rather than on the Japanese adults.
For example, if you did not know what the word '柿（kaki）' meant, you could look up the kanji and its reading in a dictionary and understand the kanji. However, if it is written as "かき（kaki）", you will be confused as the dictionary's "かき" field will provide many meanings such as "persimmon", "oyster", "summer", "fence" and so on. This is exactly what those who are now learning Japanese using the Romaji are struggling with.

PS: I am not in favour of removing kanji from the Japanese language.

落地勢猛虎

My first thought was “why is your penmanship soo good ?!”
Then I looked at your channel name lol

pumpkinhill

Fun fact: The Tale of Genji was written almost entirely in hiragana in the 11th century and it is considered one of the great classics of Japanese literature. At that time, during the Heian period, Hiragana was considered women's writing or informal writing so even when male authors wanted to write female stories or quick informal messages, they would often use hiragana exclusively. It was only much later in history that Hiragana combined with Kanji and Katakana to form the modern Japanese writing system.

It is a bit like how the Ancient Romans would use entirely uppercase characters for their official documents but the roman clergy and merchants would use a cursive form of those characters which later became the lowercase letters used in the English alphabet.. and nowadays we add emotes to emphasize meaning, so now we use all 3 sets of characters plus indo-arabic numerals and it feels natural.

but if I choose to use all lower case OR ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS, IT'S STILL QUITE READABLE EVEN IF IT IS OFFENSIVE TO THE EYES. and in theory I could sprinkle it with emotes to show that I am 🧐but it would be completely 🤮, 🤧and I'd probably get a lot of 👎 and😠 from🙎👱👳.

IvarDaigon

I know your channel is about Japanese Calligraphy(as shown in your name) but your handwriting is absolutely beautiful. Actual art with such a simple pen

jck

Kanji makes Japanese so much easier! You can understand words you can't read, and even understand a sentence before you can finish reading it! Pro tip: Don't learn kanji independently. As soon as you can read both kana, start learning words with their kanji. You will intuitively start to understand the meaning of the kanji and learn its different pronunciations because you're learning words that use them. Usage and repetition are the biggest keys to learning

kylespevak

Also, I find it bizarre how easy it is to follow spoken Japanese, I always struggled trying to figure out words separately in other languages. But, in Japanese, there's so much emphasis on certain sounds, it's hard not to individualize each word from each other after learning the particles. I hope I'm making sense here

Comestion

I only started learning Japanese about 1.5 months ago but I'm at a point where I'm starting to use some simple kanji and I honeslty prefer it because of the readability. I know if you don't know any kanji, a sentence with kanji seems scary and frustrating, but once you know what they mean, it's much easier to read a sentence with them than without them. Only issue with kanji sometimes is that if I see one, I don't have the Japanese word in my head, but only the meaning of the kanji. Like I understand the sentence, but if I should read it out loud, I would have to think hard about how it's actually read.

fruitylaura

I’m Japanese high school student, learning English. I think both -of- Japanese and English are so brilliant *plural of* language but they are so far *from* each other -s- .
They have some advantages and disadvantages so I want to talk about it.
(I don’t intend to decide which language is better, so please don’t misunderstand it.)

In English, Alphabet is *an* awesome investment _b_ecause it ha *s* different pronunciations in same *letter* when it *is combined* with other *letters to form words* . So the number of Alphabet is only 26. English learner *s* don’t need to remember *an* enormous *number or about of* characters as *in* Japanese Kanji. I think that it’s a big advantage. Thanks to it, I love English and *am* able to enjoy Speaking in English *in* my English class in school.
In Japanese, person who *is* learning Japanese must remember *mass* about of characters in Japanese such as Hiragana, Katakana, kanji. But thanks to them, Japanese documents can exhibit entire atmosphere of the document. For example, Japanese has many kind *s* of first person pronoun *s* . Such as ''ぼく、わたし、おれ、わし、わがはい '' etc. If you see them _while_ leading something, you might *find out* something about *writer* such as his age, gender, character, even era. I think this is a big advantage.

Each language has so *many* different properties but both of them are wonderful. So I want to learn more about English to -find out- *discover more good things about English* good point.
Thank you for reading my long comment. Have a nice day!!

(If my English is wrong, please tell me where and how is wrong in this comment.

みき-xz

It is interesting to see comments that explain the characteristics of Japanese and the degree of difficulty for foreigners to learn Japanese. As a Japanese, I am happy to know that not a few people are interested in Japanese. Please forgive me if my English is wrong.

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