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How do Japanese people remember so many kanji?

>> No.4547631

its like asking why english people can remember all that grammar bullshit.

>> No.4547630

How do English people remember so many rules?

It's just ingrained.

>> No.4547632

Music association.

>> No.4547633
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4547633

How do Americans remember so many words?

>> No.4547634

How come you've never finished high school, OP?

>> No.4547637

It took them 8 years. Same time it did for you to complete your education.

>> No.4547639

>>4547633
They walk around with dictionaries.

>> No.4547641

>>4547634
I had mental issues okay

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>>4547626
There is no choice but to remember.

>> No.4547644

>>4547633
Most of them don't.

>> No.4547651

>>4547637
What's with all of the personal attacks?

>> No.4547656

The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use.

The Japanese Ministry of Education designated 1,945 characters as Jooyoo Kanji, which are the most frequently used characters.

>> No.4547655

>>4547651
Don't you know where you're posting?

>> No.4547660

One butthurt language after another.

>> No.4547666

>>4547656
But those kanji can take on entirely different meanings and sounds when placed next to other kanji

>> No.4547676

>>4547666
Are there 170,000 combinations?

>> No.4547694

>>4547676
Probably.

>> No.4547722

>>4547655
But why are they so personal and accurate?

>> No.4547731 [DELETED] 

>>4547630
>implying english grammar is hard
try latin faggot

>> No.4547735

>>4547676
> Are there 170,000 combinations?
350,000[1], and that's just for names.

[1] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html

>> No.4547746

>>4547735
Apples and oranges. Compare English common words to Japanese common words, or English names to Japanese names.

>> No.4547759

unlike chinese japanese has up to like 20 readings for 1 word

>> No.4547762

>>4547746
No, you asked about combinations.

>> No.4547789

>>4547762
The comment was referring to how many common words there were in the japanese language, vs how many are in the english, if every english name were included, I'm sure there would be several times more than there are in japanese, simply because of all the different cultures that make up america, and the fact that americans name their kids some stupid shit, so let's stick to common words ok?

>> No.4547990

Remember the radicals.
Pronounciation comes with use.

Solved.

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