Personally, I think learning and memorizing a symbol for every word isn't much harder than learning and memorizing how to spell a word with pre-made symbols. Plus, you can write more in a smaller space which can be pretty convenient in some situations.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I had to learn them for Japanese because Japanese also uses about 2000 Chinese characters. I have to say that it was the hardest thing about learning the language. I almost failed my last semester of advanced Japanese because I just couldn't keep all 1000 characters (3 year's work) I had learned up to that point in my head. T__T

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Personally, I feel like with a word there are only roughly 26 options to create it +/- an accent here or there. With symbols, you could have two that look horribly similar with only one line differentiating them. And then with the symbols there's no phonetic assistance either...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well, there's definitely more than 26 options to create a word (more than 100,000 actually) but I know what you mean.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

well you can see how it evolved from pictures -> symbols. I'm still confused as how the English alphabet was made. I think it was something like Alpha -> A? idk can someone please explain it

by Anonymous 11 years ago