yariang·vor 15 Jahren·discuss> This comment about Chinese and Japanese (totally unrelated > languages with very different writing systems, is laughable.No it's not. I studied Japanese as my fourth language for 1.5 years and went through pretty much exactly what the OP described.Edit: Other languages were Spanish English and Italian.
yariang·vor 15 Jahren·discuss> I thought the same thing for English and French, no? When > I learn English and French in school, we join letters.You can write cursive but, generally, we don't join letters together (think online text like this comment).> The same for french. (Il, Ils, Elle, Elles, On)And for Spanish--Ellas y elllos--and for Italian.
No it's not. I studied Japanese as my fourth language for 1.5 years and went through pretty much exactly what the OP described.
Edit: Other languages were Spanish English and Italian.