I was stationed in Japan in the military and picked up enough of the language to get me around Japan. I tried to learn Kana and Kanji but got frustrated and wanted to learn more of the language. Romanji allowed me to pick up a great deal more of the language. My feelings are that once the words are learned, the Kanji or Kana can be studied from the sounds already known. I can speak many sentences and even form unlearned sentences from known words. I get my point across and can be corrected by friends who speak Japanese fluently without knowing how to write the language. Speaking is much more important to me than writing right now. Romanji would be the greater help to speaking the language that getting frustrated by trying to learn something one feels to be less important.
I was stationed in Japan in
I was stationed in Japan in the military and picked up enough of the language to get me around Japan. I tried to learn Kana and Kanji but got frustrated and wanted to learn more of the language. Romanji allowed me to pick up a great deal more of the language. My feelings are that once the words are learned, the Kanji or Kana can be studied from the sounds already known. I can speak many sentences and even form unlearned sentences from known words. I get my point across and can be corrected by friends who speak Japanese fluently without knowing how to write the language. Speaking is much more important to me than writing right now. Romanji would be the greater help to speaking the language that getting frustrated by trying to learn something one feels to be less important.