#and the lack of conjugation means once i know a hanzi i KNOW how to read out loud. and again with the radicals if i know Radicals i can at l
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really cannot emphasize enough how... chinese hanzi and grammar just... click in my head easier...
#rant#april#april progress#i think its just like. i learn/study better when i puzzle solve myself and have context#french was not too bad cause cognates made it easier for me to guess word meaning based on latin or english similarity#well theres no cognates in chinese mostly. BUT hanzi having ONE set pronunciation (or pretty standard changed pronunciations in certain word#that are easy to get used to - and most hanzi don't change pronunciation) helps me so fucking much#also the radical combo of meaning+sound hints which a lot of hanzi are made like.#it means with even totally new hanzi#if i know the radicals it is like seeing auto-dream-ization (some word i don't know but could guess a logical rough meaning)#and the lack of conjugation means once i know a hanzi i KNOW how to read out loud. and again with the radicals if i know Radicals i can at l#least somewhat guess at what pinyin to look up for any hanzi. i do not have to look up by writing it#and i might be able to guess everything but its tone.#and if two hanzi i know combine into a new 2 character word? i can PRONOUNCE it i only have to look up word meaning#then theres japanese. where kanji i cannot sound out. i cannot reliably know a new word with a kanji i know from an old word#and conjugation will further intensify the changes#i really love particles and japanese grammar logic (compared to like english or french) but it takes my brain longer to automatically#'follow along'. whereas. chinese just kind of clicks as 'yes this is intuitively clear' once i get used to it a little#which i think is cause i hate conjugations. and the word order feels logical. and the parts that are different from english#feel logical in their structure so they're easy to adjust to. it just takes me some exposure.#i already know japanese takes me at least 4x the exposure to adjust to the grammar structure of something#at least on an intuitive level where i dont have to reorder the sentence in my head#;-;
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