Knowing Chinese may give you an advantage in learning Japanese but right now, it may be holding me… - Feed Post by _yukixue23_
Knowing Chinese may give you an advantage in learning Japanese but right now, it may be holding me back because every time I see a phrase in Kanji I automatically read it in Chinese or if I'm doing a test here I find myself "cheating" by reading the Kanji in Chinese. Does anyone else have this problem?
posted by _yukixue23_
Comments 5
What is your level is Chinese?
The problem is that I could easily confused with the sound because I could easily mixed them up...
Japanese also has multiple ways of reading a kanji whereas Chinese mostly have 1 or 2 ways to read it... now I look at a kanji 人... it has 9 ways to say it... 7 sounds in Japanese and 1 in Mandarin and 1 in Cantonese.
Overall, I would say it's a very good advantage and it's definitely not cheating. We spend years on memorizing kanji in school years.
I bet every Chinese has the same problem...It can be frustrating when you can understand some of the kanji but you don't know how to read them in japanese..
same here. thanks to that i know what the word means even if i cant read it in kanji.
agreed
