Danny wrote:For me it seems that Katakana folowed by Hiragana and Kanji seem to be the easist for me in that order. I wonder if the samurai katana sword has something to do with the Katakana language. Maybe it was the languge of the samurai! Maybe not, eiter way, I'll try to look into it. Anyone want to see my three katana sword set?
Some how I don't think it's even remotely connected
and Katakana is a very English like set up, all the letters are clearly defined (please ignore the " and o for a moment) and it's what it says. Where as Hiragana even if you know what it says, without a working knowledge.. well you're screwed. Add into the fact that Hiragana and Kanji are interbred like and 2 person plot to restore the population of Earth.... and yea.. Katakana is easier for obvious reasons.
Does anyone else find it disturbing when they do stuff to do with Japanese though? For example earlier (erm yesterday depending on how you count someone not sleeping) I watched an entire film raw and understood everything except 1 long ass big long speech of +10 long words, while it wasn't exactly rocket science it was one of those "wow, I can really do this!" type of moments.
Of course this comes after playing RPGs in Japanese (hey I understand the kanji for dodging, and who said running away and dodging everything wasn't a noble tactic!?), but it seemed to be that 1 thing which set off the alarm bells. I guess it's time to start making stupid kanji jokes and buying a Japanese to Russian (hey it's got more flare than English to Japanese even if I don't read a lick of Russian!)
