dtchpixl

Sorry for the small rant, but I can now see why Japanese is the hardest language to learn.

I am on my third day of WaniKani, learning Radicals and Kanji. Today I started learning vocabulary. It’s absolutely insane. The Kanji for ‘one’ is 一 (ichi) but ‘one thing’ is written as 一つ (hitotsu). The Kanji for ‘person’ is 人 (jin) but ‘two people’ is written as 二人 (futari).

Instead of 一つ (hitotsu), I would have thought it was いちつ (ichitsu). Many Kanji have multiple ‘readings’, or, multiple ways to pronounce the same characters that change depending on context and other Kanji in the same sentence (and that also change depending on if the aforementioned Kanji is proceeded or preceded by the first.)

Rant time over. Back to WK.

さよなら。

ETA: Enjoy the small victories. I just reached Lv 2 on WK after 3 days, 22 hours. I’m nearly 4 days ahead of schedule.

Hi there. My name is dtch (pron. detach). I make edits of pixel cars and I’m currently learning Japanese. I’m one week into learning and I’ve mastered Hiragana (ひらがな) and Katakana (カタカナ). They are two of the three ‘alphabets’ that are used in Japan. The third is ‘Kanji’. I’m currently learning Kanji through WaniKani. It’s very simple to use and an invaluable resource.

If you’d like to learn to read, write, and speak Japanese, I’d suggest starting at Tofugu’s ultimate guide to Hiragana. I took my time and it took me about 2 days with Hiragana to be confident with reading and recognizing. I’m even able to recall most of the Hiragana.