Languages

Originally posted by GT40FIED
Which Japanese dialect are you studying? I assume it's Kanji unless you plan on hanging out in rural Japan. Chinese is that way too...you've got mandarin and cantonese. Those people need to decide on one language and stick with it. Hehe.

China has more than just mandarin and cantonese.

The kanji are just the Chinese characters in the Japanese writing systems, not a dialect. I'm not studying any particular dialect, I'm studying plain ordinary ole Japanese. Of course there are regional dialectical differences in Japanese just as any other language has, but you don't study them in school (at least not that I'm aware of in any way). But the study is of formal, or polite, Japanese, we're not learning much casual language.

For the writing systems so far I've only picked up hiragana. I plan on learning katakana before summer's end if things go well, and hopefully will start my study of the kanji in the fall.....but considering how slowly I've been studying on my own, I probably won't start the kanji this year.

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