The 3 writing systems of Nihongo makes it much harder to learn than Korean which has a brilliant 1 writing system. Why does the Japanese language have kanji, hiragana and kataka?
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https://unseen-japan.com/japan-kanji-korea-hanja-abolition/
Kanji Forever? Why Japan Still Uses Chinese Characters, But Korea Mostly Doesn't - Unseen Japan
Japan spent a century trying to abolish kanji, from an 1866 petition to the shogun to a postwar novelist who wanted Japan to adopt French.
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