Learning Chinese is admirable. I don't even want to go anywhere near it... kanji is way too hard for me already. xDD I'm not a fan of how the pronunciations in Chinese aren't very clear, either...
Haha. Kanji's actually pretty hard for me too. Most of the kanji I know I can only read; I can't write it. If you want some advice about learning kanji, read lots of manga or Japanese books in Japanese, particularly ones with furigana so you know what they're saying. Just seeing the same kanji over and over will help you remember them. So even if you can't write them, you can at least remember what they look like.
Chinese pronunciation is the major killer. And pinyin (sorta like romaji) doesn't help at all. The vowels change their sounds all the time; kind of like English, actually. It's very confusing.
Furigana is love. xD I'm the same as you though, I can read a lot of kanji but I have a hard time remembering them well enough to write. Yay for computers~ ehehe.
The way I've learned most of the kanji I know is actually through playing video games! It's amazing how much you can remember when you play a bunch of different games in Japanese. I have ToA, ToR, ToDR and ToD2 to help me out with my kanji memorization. :D Though it's tough when the talking in scenes isn't voiced, but luckily in Tales games all the main story scenes are. ♥
Yea, I know some (by some I mean barely any at all) Chinese from watching too much Taiwanese drama in the past, but I would have no idea how to write it. They really need an easier system like katakana for writing in foreign languages. I can't imagine how they do it... o_O
Intimidating? It's quite easy, actually. :D Especially with your Japanese knowledge, I don't think you'd have trouble playing Japanese games either. But, when it comes to system-type things, like Capacity Cores in ToA and Enhance in ToR, it is hard to read and understand things without getting blocked by kanji. But that's what internet guides are for. ^^
Oh, you want to understand everything about the story? That'd be problematic then, unless you looked up words and kanji. It's not a big deal to me when I don't understand stuff, I can still get the gist.
Yeah, see, that's my problem. I'd want to know EXACTLY what they were saying. I wouldn't feel comfortable playing a videogame and not know at all what the characters were saying. It'd drive me crazy.
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If you want some advice about learning kanji, read lots of manga or Japanese books in Japanese, particularly ones with furigana so you know what they're saying. Just seeing the same kanji over and over will help you remember them. So even if you can't write them, you can at least remember what they look like.
Chinese pronunciation is the major killer. And pinyin (sorta like romaji) doesn't help at all. The vowels change their sounds all the time; kind of like English, actually. It's very confusing.
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The way I've learned most of the kanji I know is actually through playing video games! It's amazing how much you can remember when you play a bunch of different games in Japanese. I have ToA, ToR, ToDR and ToD2 to help me out with my kanji memorization. :D Though it's tough when the talking in scenes isn't voiced, but luckily in Tales games all the main story scenes are. ♥
Yea, I know some (by some I mean barely any at all) Chinese from watching too much Taiwanese drama in the past, but I would have no idea how to write it. They really need an easier system like katakana for writing in foreign languages. I can't imagine how they do it... o_O
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Hmm..I think TotA would be too intimidating to play in Japanese for me. Well, any game in Japanese intimidates me, actually.
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