How can anyone learn chinese alphabets?

By memory.

They write them over and over again from the time they are able to write.

On their smartphones?

It's not an alphabet. They're logographs and the vast majority of phonosemantic compounds. There are repeating elements combined in predictable ways that make memorization easier than if you have to learn thousands of truly unique characters. Additionally you actually don't read words you know letter by letter, so reading even in English is actually more complex than it appears.

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The Latin alphabet should be universal by now. The only Asian countries that use it are the ones that were colonized. I think a couple may be transitioning.

Ironically enough, if you ask a native Chinese person who's learning english what language is harder to learn they'll most likely say english is harder to remember

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It just baffles me that the Japanese will spend like 20 years learning all kanji ever while they've already had hiragana and katakana for centuries, and while the Koreans have had an alphabet for 500 years or so that can literally be learned in about an hour. Koreans learn a few hanja characters but there's like 10 of them and it's like using a dollar sign or a # for them.

It just baffles me that the Japanese will spend like 20 years learning all kanji ever while they've already had hiragana and katakana for centuries, and while the Koreans have had an alphabet for 500 years or so that can literally be learned in about an hour. Koreans learn a few hanja characters but there's like 10 of them and it's like using a dollar sign or a # for them.

Kanji and Hiragana are read completely differently.

It just baffles me that the Japanese will spend like 20 years learning all kanji ever while they've already had hiragana and katakana for centuries, and while the Koreans have had an alphabet for 500 years or so that can literally be learned in about an hour. Koreans learn a few hanja characters but there's like 10 of them and it's like using a dollar sign or a # for them.

Not sure what you mean, both are used for Japanese words right? Why are some words in kanji but not others, are certain words always only written in kanji and others are only written in hiragana? I assume hiragana could be used for all Japanese words but they just don't because reasons.

Using ideograms in Korean (or English) would be weird because there's so many short words thrown into a sentence that don't really mean big concepts like a noun or a verb, but are stuff like "since" or "but" that probably wouldn't get their own ideogram. And obviously words exist like that in Chinese and Japanese. But when you're traveling and see a Chinese script next to the Japanese kanji version they're nearly 100% the same. Obviously read differently but it seems like they're written with the same grammar and word order.

Lol they will never. Japan is so stubborn and refuses to learn English in any meaningful way.

Kanji originally was just stolen Chinese characters. Originally Japan had no written language. They got it from China. The Kanji characters are the oldest of Japanese writing. Hiragana came many centuries later. And then eventually they invented katakana. Anyway, that's why Kanji is so similar to Chinese writing

Kanji originally was just stolen Chinese characters. Originally Japan had no written language. They got it from China. The Kanji characters are the oldest of Japanese writing. Hiragana came many centuries later. And then eventually they invented katakana. Anyway, that's why Kanji is so similar to Chinese writing

It just baffles me that the Japanese will spend like 20 years learning all kanji ever while they've already had hiragana and katakana for centuries, and while the Koreans have had an alphabet for 500 years or so that can literally be learned in about an hour. Koreans learn a few hanja characters but there's like 10 of them and it's like using a dollar sign or a # for them.

(Korean still used them until relatively recently)

To be fair Japanese has way, way more homophones then Korean.

English is mandatory in many Japanese schools from like 3rd grade until graduation and have tv programs for it etc.
i dunno how well the education is but outright "refusing" it is a lie. most younger Japanese at least know the basics

Also, most Kanji you need to know, road signs etc., have hiragana/katakana/english underneath it

Just try reading a sentence in all hiragana, and then do it again with hiragana and kanji and tell us which one is easier.

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If you didn't know the difference between Chinese characters & Japanese characters then what would be the easiest and most simplest way of telling them apart?

I mean I can tell the difference between most Cyrillic alphabets, Kazakhstan is phasing in a switch from Cyrillic to Latin although it'll be close to the Turkish one.

Uzbekistan is trying to do the same

In general Japanese characters look more similar to traditional Chinese, but it's a mess and you can't really tell without knowing the languages. So the easiest way to tell something is Japanese is to just look for the presence of hiragana and/or katakana.

I don't know much about Japanese (obviously) but I know that in Korean they took a lot of words from Chinese, took out the tone, and suddenly you have four or more words that are all spelled exactly the same and sound exactly the same but mean completely different things. Meanwhile in Chinese they all sound completely different because they have different tones, and they're written with completely different characters.

Ironically enough, if you ask a native Chinese person who's learning english what language is harder to learn they'll most likely say english is harder to remember