Midna312

<p><p><p><p><p>it doesnt quite work that way... <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/unsure.png" alt=":/" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/unsure@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /> you cant just learn Japanese, unlike the "romanized" languages (spanish, french, english) </p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>In Japanese, you have to learn 3 alphabets. Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>there are 69 Hiragana characters, 68 Katakana characters (excluding about 4 or 5 special characters only used rarely)</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>To read japanese fluently, you need a mastery of over 2000 kanji... Personally... i only know 59 offhand. to look up kanji in a dictionary, you must know the number of strokes, or the hiragana spelling of the kanji itself.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>More written info:</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>hiragana: used for natural Japanese words, the most common written form of japanese</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>katakana: used phonetically for non-japanese words, also used for emphasis in written Hiragana scripts</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>kanji: Chinese characters used in japanese writing, used to evoke greater meaning and definition in a written form.</p></p></p></p></p>