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United States flagMichael L McDowell
Do i have to learn Kanji in addition to hiragana and kantankana in order to read japanese? I noticed that some signs, and paragraphs in newspapers are written or printed with hiragana, kantankana, and Kanji all mixed together.

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Depending on the text that you want to read (technical, religious, fairy take, et cetera) the percentage of kanji in a text will vary from 30 to 60 percent. Most newspapers will contain only 25 to 30 percent of hiragana, 5 percent of katakana and some 1 to 2 percent of Latin letters. The rest of it will be kanji. Now, you need to learn Yoyu kanji (most frequent kanji list) which includes close to two thousand kanji. The good news is that the first one thousand kanji of that list covers about 85 percent of the communication. So... by the time you have learnt half of it, you will be able to read and write 85 percent of what is written and you may want to communicate.
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Yes.
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sure man. learn em all.
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We have very confusing word : "Wasei - Eigo" also known as "Japanglish" which would make no sense to native English speakers. You'll find out it sooner or later.haha

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