Yeah, exactly. I feel like Japanese is a bit easy to speak for me, it's easier than pronouncing English words, but writing is a completely different story.
I sometimes forget how to write some Kanjis, but to say them? Not that hard in my opinion.
There are some languages that are hard to write, but easy to speak, and some are the other way around. For me, Japanese words are easy to say, but writing them is difficult.
And the existence of Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji is what makes Japanese hard when you're listening to someone speak Japanese, because when you're a beginner, you don't really know which words are Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Is only one used, or two or the all three? And time for another opinion that will probably make people think i'm insane:
I'm actually kind of thankful that Kanji exists. Sure, it may be difficult, and there are some easy ones though, but i feel like Japanese would be a boring and unattractive language if words were only used in Hiragana and/or Katakana. I feel like it's what makes Japanese a cool language, sometimes, hard things are fun as well, when one actually understands them. But interest makes everything look fun, really.







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