日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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Japanese - Ask questions thread
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1174719097/1-40

日語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread2 質問
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1206158123/1-40

日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 3
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1267485093/1-40

日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 4
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1302350850/1-40

日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 5
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1330050873/1-40

Just started.

English:

>26 characters
>plus rules on how they go together


Japanese:

>50 characters
>for not at many sounds

>then another 50 for the same

>then 40K characters for individual words

>plus additional rules on sounds

Their alphabet is kinda inefficient, isn't it?

Also, having one character represent a consonant and vowel is going to take some getting used to.

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