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My point is it takes thousands of school hours to learn kanji and makes Japanese as a foreign language much less accessible
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Not to mention, English is poorly suited to be our era’s lingua franca, due to deep orthography (distance between spoken and written forms). By contrast, in the ancient West, Latin was a superior lingua franca. Suomi (Finnish) has possibly the shallowest contemporary orthography.
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Certainly true for writing. But a nice feature of English as lingua franca is that you can learn 300 words and four sentence patterns and it's already helpful
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