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ようこそJapaneseLanguageへ！日本語に興味を持てば、どうぞ登録して勉強しましょう！日本語に関係するどのテーマ、質問でも大歓迎します。 This is a community dedicated to the Japanese language. Feel free to come in and ask questions or post your thoughts and opinions about this beautiful language.

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~{漢字|かんじ}~ which comes out as:

{漢字|かんじ}

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Anyone that learnt Japanese after Chinese? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I've been learning Chinese for quite some time now, and will probably keep at it these coming years as it'll be a necessity in my life, but I'd lie if I'm not constantly attracted by Japanese. I'm just afraid of picking up another life-long project, and having to balance learning Japanese with keeping up my Chinese. Has anyone learnt Japanese after Chinese? What has been your experience? Did knowing hanzi help with learning kanji?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chances are if you know Chinese you still need to learn some kanji. China uses simplified characters but Japan still uses the older characters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Luckily I'm way more comfortable with traditional characters :) Still, it's true that Japan uses some even older forms than the ones seen in the traditional character set of Taiwan or Hong Kong sometimes.