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What makes Japanese difficult or easy? - youasuki - 2013-10-01
Another thing about kanji is that many people forget low-level frequency kanji readings all the time (and that's just reading it, writing it from memory is a different story). That just doesn't happen in English. Maybe the closest we get is forgetting the spelling of a word.
What makes Japanese difficult or easy? - ktcgx - 2013-10-01
youasuki Wrote:Another thing about kanji is that many people forget low-level frequency kanji readings all the time (and that's just reading it, writing it from memory is a different story). That just doesn't happen in English. Maybe the closest we get is forgetting the spelling of a word.I think a lot of people who read a lot have quite a few words that they don't know how to pronounce properly in English, I think that's a better analogy...