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how easy is it to pick up some basic japanese if you already know chinese?

>> No.4896893 [DELETED] 
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>know chinese

Get out.

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op here, what happened to that reply?

it made me laugh so hard that I took a screenshot

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>>4896910
Jan Itori at work.

>> No.4896931

If you know chinese, you know how to write the various kanji and have memorized them. Now you just need to learn how they are read and sound and what are their meanings in japanese. It shouldn't be too hard.

>> No.4896938

>>4896910

Kindly stop bumping your own threads please.
sincerely /jp/

>> No.4896942

But do you mean the traditional or simplified Chinese? Since all Kanji are old, traditional Chinese. The kana should not be a problem but the grammar may takes sometime to complete.

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sage

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>>4896948
>he thinks sage actually does anything.

>> No.4896963

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>>4896963
You think the maid would delete the thread just because you like it?

>> No.4896972

>>4896968

That's exactly what I think...

>> No.4897395

How easy would it be to pick up Japanese if all I know is English? I'm sick of waiting for VN's to be translated, I just need to know how to read it, not speak it.

>> No.4897407

>>4897395
If you only speak English then you're probably American, and if you're American then you're probably dumb. And fat. So it's impossible.

>> No.4897471

>>4897407
hurr hurr hurr

I'm assuming chinese to japanese would be on par with, say, someone who knows spanish trying to learn portuguese.
Very similar, but different rules / ways to write.

>> No.4897554

>>4897471
Nope. Japanese is actually very far from Chinese due to its agglutinative nature. It helps Japanese is really concise because it's so heavily context-based.

They simply borrowed a bucket load of words, roughly analogous to how English uses Greek and Latin to form new concepts.

>> No.4897650

>>4896972
Sage goes on the email field.

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>> No.4901162

⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠

>> No.4901959

http://kanjidamage.com/introduction

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