By the time Japanese students graduate from high school, they should have mastered at least 2000 kanji. The cultured Japanese or logographic kanji, which consists of adopted Chinese characters.To start with, Japanese can be written in three or four different ways: An adult who did not grow up in Japan or was not exposed to the language at an early age, may find it extremely difficult, or even impossible, to learn to read Japanese. Learning to read in Japan could be patty cake… for kids. ![]() Instead, I focused on documentary and anecdotal research, enriched by the observations made in the schools that we did visit. I have always been interested in early reading instruction, but this was the first time I had the opportunity to explore how children learn to read in a language and system so different from ours -Spanish- and from other Western languages.ĭue to Eduardo’s tight research schedule, and the difficulty to obtain permits to visit schools and conduct questionnaires, I was unable to perform a rigorous protocol on early reading instruction in oriental cultures. This chart shows a comparison of hiragana and romaji: here we can see how each letter or syllable are written. We visited numerous schools in several Japanese cities from Tokyo to Hiroshima, Nagoya and others. ![]() I had the opportunity to visit Japan for the first time in November 2014, as part of researcher Eduardo Andere’s project on learning environments around the world. This post was originally published in Spanish here.
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