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I see the Japanese symbols, but never asked myself how hard is to write using
these symbols. It seems very inviable. How do you guys do when writing at
Japanese? Is it really harder than, for example, English or Portuguese. I
mean, the amount of writing required to express the same sentence.
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kanji katakana kana hiragana handwriting
Is it hard to write Japanese?
As I've explained when teaching, each language's quirks add value to it or
else they wouldn't be retained. If you embrace the differences by learning
Kana quickly and then not being afraid of Kanji thereafter, it will come
fairly easily with practice. If you view kanji as a monolithic set of
thousands of symbols with nothing in common with each other, you're going to
have a hard time.

The trick with Kanji in particular is to remember that it forms a visual
system of roots, prefixes, and suffixes that, among other things, enable you
to guess the meanings of words you've never seen before or "coin" new words on
the fly when needed. Further, if you become acquainted with the breakdown of
kanji as you learn them you'll discover patterns (visual, semantic, and
phonetic) that create a useful web of knowledge for holding everything
together.

In short, it's as hard as you choose to make it.
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Like others have said this is highly opinion based. I like to think of the
structures as art works and have their own flow. If you look up videos of
japanese students and natives writing kanji and certain hiragana words, you
can notice those little nuances that can make your writing legible to natives.

Think about why english (romanized language) was easy. You learned young -
were awful at the start - then a few years of schooling later you developed
your own style. It just takes practice!

What you can do to practice is make haikus on paper in all japanese. It builds
an understanding of the language and lets you write it out and practice.
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