>>585201>be japanese learning englishOh cool. Everything is in this script that we learn while we're still little kids. So we can just read everything we see, and even if we don't understand it at least we're getting exposure. I don't know this part, or that part, but they have these neat things call spaces which tells me this word is different to that word. Even if my pronunciation is awful I can at least attempt it and get better, because it's not a picture and tells me what to say.
>be any westerner learning japanese>can't just start reading things because everything is locked behind a glorified paywall of thousands and thousands of symbols>even if it's kind enough to tell you what it is in kana, that doesn't matter because that's not how its written in the real world