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<p>[QUOTE="rick, post: 56650, member: 1235"]even with chinese, you actually have traditional and contemporary charactors. Traditional characters are much more detailed, and difficult to learn.</p><p> </p><p>as for Japanese, Kanji was adapted from the chinese written language - Hanzi - so at one time they were the same, although time has created differences in characters used for sentence structure. Even still, many of the characters remain the same, but are pronounced differently, which is why a lot of chinese refer to japan as Riban - because the characters that Japan chose for 'Nipon', are pronounced differently in the chinese spoken language.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rick, post: 56650, member: 1235"]even with chinese, you actually have traditional and contemporary charactors. Traditional characters are much more detailed, and difficult to learn. as for Japanese, Kanji was adapted from the chinese written language - Hanzi - so at one time they were the same, although time has created differences in characters used for sentence structure. Even still, many of the characters remain the same, but are pronounced differently, which is why a lot of chinese refer to japan as Riban - because the characters that Japan chose for 'Nipon', are pronounced differently in the chinese spoken language.[/QUOTE]
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