LogFAQs > #883249290

Katakana is not exclusively for loanwords. Learning kids stuff where they write everything in kana (which is katakana and hiragana and technically furigana i think) actually isn't very helpful cause most of those words will never be in kana. Theres a lot of websites with good kana flashcard type stuff that makes it fairly easy to learn in a couple days. Finding something that does have furigana is probably best as it just puts the kana above the kanji so you at least know how to pronounce it but you still have no idea what it means or whether those 5 kanji in a row are 1 word or 3 or 5 or half of a single word that the proceeding kana finishes.

If they did everything like pokemon without kanji and with spaces I'd probably have learned it by now as I've at least memorized all the kana and gotten my reading speed of them up pretty fast on a few different occasions. They really just should abolish kanji and use spaces. The average person needs to know 5000! kanji to be fluent. That's dumb. I wonder if I could find the site I was using to learn kanji, it seemed pretty good.

I also managed to get an Image to text capture hooked into a text hooker so I could play stuff on emulators you can't hook to and still have it feed into the text hooker through the image to text thing but I forgot how I managed that. It was also really tedious.
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