is there any people around u learning chinese/japanese? the people learning chinese is equal to learning japa.
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Let me revise your question. Is it better to learn Chinese or Japanese? If this is what you are asking, it really depends on how you'll use the language.\nIn terms of population, there are much much more people in the whole world speaking Chinese than Japanese.\nMany job opportunities have out-sourced to China. Many people are learning the language for this reason.
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If English is your mother tongue, Japanese. Japanese belongs to the Altaic family of languages, which is more closely related to English than Chinese, which belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family, is.
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learning the basics are pretty easy but the older you get the harder it is.  i've been taking it since kindergarten and now i'm in  8th grade but it isn't a stupid language it is actually VERY FUN!!!! i would recommend taking japanese you get to have parties with sushi and most of it is really good \ni hope this helped u with your question
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I think they use a english keyboard and type in english, because my gf lives in china and i use to think she had a program that translated chinese to english but she said no she uses english keys.\n\nIn china, they block some of the internet.\nSo the chinese people cant use all the search engines they would like.\n\nI dont know about Japanese.\n\nHope that helps :0\nsteffy
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Latin is great from an intellectual standpoint. But if you want to learn an alternative language for productivity and business purposes, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish are probably the best languages right now to learn and each has its own reasons. Spanish obviously for businesses based in the southern part of the US, Japanese for big and well established businesses, and Chinese because the economy over there is exponentially expanding and upstart businesses there will probably become fortune 500 within 2 years. Its a matter of opinion really.
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hahaha\njapanese is definitely NOT easier to learn than chinese.\nto a native english speaker, korean and japanese are the most difficult languages to learn in the world.\nwith a name like "yooni" i'm assuming that maybe you're korean?  if that's so, and you know some korean, then japanese grammar is almost identical to korean grammar, but the vocabulary is completely different.\non the other hand, again based off of korean, because korean has so much chinese-based vocabulary, learning hanja is actually pretty easy, because it's logical and makes sense for the most part.  plus, chinese has very little grammar at all.  while the characters will make it a little more difficult to learn how to read, you can be speaking chinese with a bit of fluency in no time.  \nbut remember, japanese has three ways of writing, and the main one is pure chinese characters (or variants thereof).  so, whether you learn japanese or chinese, you'll still have to memorize all that hanja.\n\nyour parents are right.  according to all major economists, japan is sinking in the international community, and china and korea are rising.  i strongly suggest learning either chinese or korean.\nhowever, if you *really* want to learn japanese, go ahead.  i don't see much benefit in japanese other than to read japanese literature.
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Of course Chinese. Japanese have "stolen" a lot of characters from Chinese and developed two sets of symbols of their own  syllabic writing: hiragana and katakana, which symbols, strictly speaking, are not characters. But even if you add up hiragana and katakana symbols together with the characters that they are using, the number will still be much less than the number of characters used in Chinese.
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Chinese is a tonal language. This means that tone are used to distinguish words from each other.
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yes. it's there for people to learn chinese not only for chinese people to go to school.
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No, in terms of script and language no.\n\nThe Japanese Writing Language in whole consists of 3 different sets of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.  Though Hiragana and Katakana are basically the same phonetic letters, they are spelled differently in their sets to distinguish original words from borrowed words.\n\nHiragana is the curved phonetic script that is used for most of the language for japanese-domestic words like you (anata) or me (watashi) (note: "anata" and "watashi" are romanji, romanized-letter style of dictating japanese, not as great as usage of the hira/kata style). \n\nKatakana is the straight phonetic script that is used for "borrowed words" from other countries (mostly USA) and sounded onomatopeicly, like hotel would be "ho-te-ru" and the US would be "A-Me-Ri-Ka".\n\nKanji are ideograph characters that are borrowed from Chinese characters (in the Simplified Chinese set, not Traditional). They stand to be used as substitutes for words in japanese that are objects or ideas for the most part. (The symbol for Tokyo 東京 is really the kanji for "Too-Ky-Yoo".) However, Hiragana and Katakana can be used in place of Kanji with no misunderstanding. Kanji is more substitute fillers.\n\nSidebar: Hirugana are the little scripts that are beside Kanji words in educational books. This helps the student familiarize themselves with the sounding of the word and memorization of the Kanji.\n\n\n\nBy Contrast, Chinese Characters, or Hanzi, is made of of nothing but tens of thousands of ideograph characters. Originally, the characters were pictures that evolved into pictographs and eventually into ideographs, for the meaning.  A meaning or work could be as simple as one character (car=車, or che) or as long as the meaning goes (WMD = 大規模毀滅性武器 daguimo huimiexing wu qi). Hanzi is all about memorizing, to know the words. But the characters do not give you an idea of what the word sounds like. Thats where Pinyin and Zhuyin come in.\n\n\nOriginally, to understand what the character sounds is, one would use the Zhuyin phonetic system. Like the hiragana phonetic system (where all script letters represent sounds like ka, no, ru), the Zhuyin (or BoPoMoFo) system is script letters that represent sounds that are used to make up the combined sound of a letter. (mom would be ㄇㄚㄇㄚˋ, or MAMa)\nEarly school children were originally taught this system first to familiarize themselves with the sounds, and towards high school just memorize the sounds that go with the character (to the point of innate skills). Taiwan and certain countries still embrace this method limitedly, because alot use Pinyin instead.\n\nPinyin is a different school of chinese phonetics. It uses roman letters instead of Zhuyin script to garner the sounds (similar to Romanji for japanese). This was developed so more of the West would be able to learn chinese without trying to use the Zhuyin system. (like Mom would be Mama, sorta).  Mainland China embraces the Pinyin system (as well as simplified text, where Kanji most resembles).\n\n\nIn summary, Japanese and Chinese do not share the same script, but originally, like most SouthEast Asian countries (*cough* Korea) Japan borrowed a large portion of the characters from China and heavily evolved it into the hiragana, katakana, and kanji sets of today. Chinese still stems into two schools of writing, with the Simplified Hanzi, and the Traditional Hanzi.
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One is Chinese and the other is Japanese and Buddhist.
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no but we need to learn japenese because everything we have in u.s is japenese
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for me,Japanese is more creative.=)
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I guess it depends on how good you are with languages :)\nYou should check out http://www.chinese-forums.com.  There are a lot of people with the same question.  Or go to http://www.chinese-forum.net , it's fairly new though.
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Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nYou study chinese and teach it.\nemail me imediatly.\nXie xie lao shi!!!!!!
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chinese...perhaps...?
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you might try learnig to spell JAPANESE first- just a thought