Ok I guess the person doesn't have to be deaf. My question is, what do you think the experience would be like for someone to learn to read Japanese, was aware of all the meaning, but was not aware of what the written language would sound like if spoken?

Would it be liberating, very difficult, or functionally impossible?

I would assume not much different than a deaf person of any other language learning how to read. There are plenty of deaf people who do it...


Here are some prior threads that deal with some similar topics:
Learning Japanese without learning to speak? http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5359
Best way for a deaf person to study japanese? http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5127

"If"?

http://www.jfd.or.jp/

#rtk@irc.rizon.net Wrote:[13:16:26] <Flamerokz> pharaun: forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=236215
[13:34:32] <pharaun> ?
[13:35:02] <pharaun> lol
[13:35:03] <pharaun> nice
[13:35:52] <pharaun> wow i forgot i posted on koohii
[13:36:46] <Flamerokz> yeah way to forget
[13:36:52] <Flamerokz> now you have a chance to be relevant again

All I know to in JSL is sign my name... XD

If you were actually deaf, I suppose that it would be just as fine as any other language-learning experience. Not being deaf I can't completely understand the deaf language experience.

If you do have hearing though, it is certainly easier to learn a language if you keep up with the spoken form of it. Language is normally closely associated with sound, and it is -much- easier to read words that you know the sound of than words that you are guessing the sound of. Deaf people surely process language differently since they don't hear, but I don't have any experience with that.... however since deaf people -can- learn multiple languages, it's surely not impossible for a hearing person to learn a language that they can't pronounce and have never heard. In fact, there are several languages - Ancient Egyptian, Mayan, etc., that can be read by scholars but that we have no way of being certain of their pronunciation because they are dead languages with only a written record.

Now here's a question:

How would Helen Keller (blind AND deaf) coped if she had been born and raised in Japan rather than the USA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

Here's another: what if you were paralyzed and couldn't use Anki? (ok, I can hear people yelling, that's ridiculous! enough already!)

john555 Wrote:Here's another: what if you were paralyzed and couldn't use Anki? (ok, I can hear people yelling, that's ridiculous! enough already!)

Jesus, dude? Is it possible for you stay on topic?

On Topic:

A website on language learned for the impaired: http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/...s.html#FLL

Thanks to the responses so far.

Zarxrax Wrote:Learning Japanese without learning to speak? http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5359

I'm going through that thread now, thanks for the link. The OP is asking the same question I was trying to, but in a significantly better formulated way.