clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 1 of 20 13 March 2011 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
I wonder who on this forum is the best at learning Chinese characters.
You don't have to know all readings and stuff, just the basic knowledge.
How many you can recognize.
It can be anything, Japanese kanji or Chinese hanzi or even Vietnamese chu nom.
me, I know around 4 000 or more.
it's hard to tell.
It's my strongest point in languages.
The other skills are inferior.
Edited by clumsy on 13 March 2011 at 8:12pm
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Sanghee Groupie United States Joined 5069 days ago 60 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean
| Message 2 of 20 13 March 2011 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
I've only started learning some Hanja about 2 weeks ago, so I only know 15 currently (大人母父兄一二三四五六七八九十). But it's a start :D I plan to start learning a few more, maybe 5 or so, today.
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Lightning Groupie United Kingdom livelanguagelove.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5339 days ago 58 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese
| Message 3 of 20 13 March 2011 at 9:31pm | IP Logged |
1000~1500... only Japanese kanji, though! I don't exactly keep count.
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Kiyoko Newbie United States Joined 5021 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Studies: Japanese, Esperanto
| Message 4 of 20 13 March 2011 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
I've only recently began learning Japanese, so I only know around five hundred kanji at
the moment. I also know one unrelated hanzi, so about 501? I think I'll keep actively
learning kanji until I know a little over 3000, and then my study of them will take a
backseat so that I can focus more on other aspects of Japanese.
Edited by Kiyoko on 13 March 2011 at 9:40pm
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egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5697 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 6 of 20 14 March 2011 at 1:27am | IP Logged |
Normally I'd let it slide, but seeing how this is a language forum: doth is
third person singular, dost is the one that goes with thou. Also, just
like in modern English, we don't conjugate the second verb after do.
I do
Thou dost
She doth
I know
Thou knowest
She knoweth
but:
I do know
Thou dost know
She doth know
Oh and to answer your question: around 3500, very rough estimate. :)
Edited by egill on 14 March 2011 at 1:28am
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lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin
| Message 7 of 20 14 March 2011 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
Does knowing 廣, 广 and 広 count as knowing one character or three?
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 8 of 20 14 March 2011 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
I'd estimate that I know between 1000 and 1500 kanji in Japanese. I've completed all of RTK so I've "learned" all of the 2000+ that are taught there, but I then forgot a lot of them after completely ignoring my reviews for almost six months. I'm currently going back through to relearn them all.
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