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even kanji doesnt all japanese people know k, if i know the japanese kanji a slight difference mostly occur for chinese char's and other asian countries... learning 1, knowing half of it in 4 others or something this is so awesome k speaking would be impossible but writitng? freaking awesome owyeah try learning 15000 kanji's to become an average person :| quite sick. but here in holland its normal in 4 years ull learn like 5000 words from the highest grade... on the bottom shelve ahwel... i have to say japanese = easier to learn that Mandarin < (our county manderijn???) Chinese and Latin/Greek