From: ume@...
Date: 2004-10-07T09:06:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)

I've seen a lot of kanji (the borrowed Chinese characters) in these types of
things. But, perhaps kana would be best (hiragana). Those two are the most
important, I think (for understanding verbs and grammar also).

But that is just what I have noticed.

-Jasmine

> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:27:08 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto
> <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> speak.  We are similar to Chinese too. ;-)
>>
>> For languages, I've heard that basic syntax is similar.  I know some
>> Koreans who have learned to speak Japanese very quickly.  Reading and
>> writing is harder because we have totally different writing system. I
>> wish natural languages are as easy as programming ones.
>>
>
> Matz, if one wanted to learn just enough Japanese to _barely_
> understand what's being discussed on the Japanese mailing lists, which
> of the writing systems would be best to start with?  From what our
> friends at RubyConf told me, _all_ of them are used all of the time.
> Is that true for the mailing list too?
>
> My project for next year is to learn Japanese well enough to skim
> through for keywords in the mailing lists (if not more) and to be able
> to speak basically to my family in Japan :)
>
> Thanks,
> Chad


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