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also hot take: US schools should teach 100โ300 most common kanji (their meanings and pronunciations in Mandarin) if nothing else to dispel the myth that logograms are "too hard to learn" for English speakers
I'd love to split off a timeline where we just teach the basics of as many languages and scripts to kids as possible, it'd be a great experiment
knowing gen Z they'd probably invent a 300+ language pidgin comprised almost entirely of memes which would be impossible for the rest of us to learn. it'd be glorious
If it's Mandarin, they're hanzi, kanji is specifically Japanese ๐
In 3 months, you could learn 300 at 5 per school day. That's not even too crazy.
TIL what kanji are called in Mandarin (I'm a weeb and have only studied Japanese haha)
Hah, same for the most part. I have a lot of Chinese friends though, so have learned a tiny bit about Mandarin.