How do chinks and japs learn thousands of characters and remember them for the rest of their lives? It sounds ridicilous and impossible yet they all do it. Is there a trick or something?
How do chinks and japs learn thousands of characters and remember them for the rest of their lives...
they forget them too if they don't use them
how do you remember all meanings, connotations, use cases, interactions of ~30.000 words in your native language, plus say half of that for English or any other language you may know? you easily have the capacity, the visual component is just unusual for us. but most characters consist of smaller units (radicals) that are reused and many are phonetic element + semantic element. so you don't have to remember individual images so much as combinations of parts.
It takes six years in elementary school to learn 1006 letters.
and then you watch TV, or something, you can learn them.
Exposure and visual memory. I can't write "love" for shit but when I've seen your OP in the catalog I've immediately remembered the meaning and pronunciation of the hàn zhí
In fact, we can even look at the radicals and predict the reading of unfamiliar kanji.
it looks like a random doodle to any outsider but there's a system to this like there is to everything else once it clicks you realize how much easier it is than it looks
How do turks and westoids learn thousands of separate words and remember them for the rest of their lives? It sounds ridiculous and impossible yet they all do it. Is there a trick or something?
But can you predict the meaning?
when i was kindergarten i could read almost of the names of my neighbor
just they are around there and normal
That's a piece of cake.