i love how japanese learners' reaction to kanji-heavy text is "oh no too much kanji" whereas my reaction is the exact opposite because I don't actually speak japanese but roughly understand lots of kanji via Chinese
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Replying to @ManishEarth
The "I can pronounce that bit but have no idea what it means" and "I have some idea of what that other bit means but no idea how to pronounce it" problem.

Aug 31, 2018 · 7:21 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
I have this problem with Chinese too, there are words for which I know (meaning, pronunciation), (hanzi, pronunciation), or (hanzi, meaning). It depends on the context in which I picked up that particular word.
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Replying to @davidbaron @ManishEarth
I have the latter problem, mostly... but nowadays I've been in a bit of mess that for certain words, Japanese pronunciation can come before Chinese.
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