sábado, 8 de enero de 2011

Hello!
I checked the poll results and you want to learn Kanji... Well, you must know that this is very difficult so let's first look at what you must know before start drawing.

Kanji is another form of writing (and the most common) in Japanese. It was not developed in Japan, but it was "copied" from China, that's the reason why some people can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese, but we can!
Because it was not from Japan, the Japanese people addapt the Kanji writting and develop several ways to read them and those ways were put together in two big sets: ONYOMI and KUNYOMI.
The ONYOMI is the Chinese Pronounciation and it is used when there are two or more kanjis together to form a word, for example the word teacher (sensei): 先生The KUNYOMI is the Japanese Pronounciation and it is used when the kanji is by itself. For example the word tree (ki):
As well as Hiragana and Katakana, the Kanji have a certain order to be written that will make the drawing easier and will keep the kanji proportion.

So if you want to learn Kanji prepare because this requires a lot of memory. The next time that I will write about Kanji I'll be teaching the first 15 basic Kanjis in Japanese.

Good luck!

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