http://www.jedutainment.com/jedu/2008/07/14/top-10-pitfalls-of-studying-japanese/ Learn Japanese over beats podcast + Life in Japan Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.jedutainment.com/jedu/2008/07/14/top-10-pitfalls-of-studying-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Ken Aston Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:17:59 +0000 http://www.jedutainment.com/jedu/?p=82#comment-99 Don't agree on #1, except that you definetely have to learn Kana. But after that, writing words in Kana which are usually written in Kanji is useless. Ramaji is used far more than Kana. Japanese use Romaji everyday on their PC, it's the standard input method. Hiragana itself isn't very useful. It's not like you'll write a handwritten letter all in Hiragana. Don’t agree on #1, except that you definetely have to learn Kana. But after that, writing words in Kana which are usually written in Kanji is useless. Ramaji is used far more than Kana. Japanese use Romaji everyday on their PC, it’s the standard input method. Hiragana itself isn’t very useful. It’s not like you’ll write a handwritten letter all in Hiragana.

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