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1. Denial
There are how many kanji in everyday use? Over two thousand? With tens of thousands more after that? And they almost all have more than one reading? That just can't be right!

2. Anger
Japanese has such a stupid writing system! Why can't they just use the alphabet like normal people?

3. Bargaining
If I just learn hiragana, katakana and a hundred or so kanji, that’ll get me by in most situations, right?

4. Depression
I’ll never do it. I may as well give up now.

5. Acceptance/Hope
Finally it’s starting to make sense. Sometimes these kanji are actually pretty useful…

I think I'm finally making it to 5, but with frequent relapses to 4 and 3.

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Date: 2017-12-11 09:19 pm (UTC)
larryhammer: animation of the kanji for four seasonal birds fading into each other in endless cycle (Japanese poetry)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
I'm still looking up at that big, tall hill of 2000+ kanji and grimacing, which I suppose is 4-with-a-side-of-determination. (Of course, it doesn't help that I've jumped courses and am now looking at a hill of 4000+ hanzi...)

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Date: 2017-12-11 10:43 pm (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer

I'm hardly "finished" with Japanese, but I've finally bowed to changes in life circumstances.

(Speaking of which, I need a hanzi icon ... )

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Date: 2017-12-12 04:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Being this close to the border, I'm starting to pick up words here and there although I really ought to be considering Yiddish and Roma.

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