Blake Wrote:Very interesting! Through those articles I also found a link to this one, which talks a bit about how all three writing systems (apparently not separate languages/dialects as I had assumed earlier) are used together.
As I said, very interesting! I didn't know any of this. I was struck by how different the three writing systems looked on the book cover, but now it makes some sense. It's still hard for a westerner like me to wrap my head around it, though! I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if English writing was represented by, say, the Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets.
Blake
Blake, I'm really glad to hear you are interested in Japanese!
I know Japanese language is difficult. But if you are interested in Japanese just now, that's no more difficult to you. Like I could learn English, you can learn Japanese. I learned English in school, during 5 years(13-18). But that was not perfect to me. So I self-learned English. Nevertheless, sometimes English is difficult to me. So when I was reading RJ books(and other FPW's books) in English, sometimes I used dictionary. Especially, medical technical words in "Sims" were difficult. But now I really like reading the books in English.