Interesting! Thank you for sharing! I’d love to know the answer as well.
Anecdotally, I can say that I did try to learn Japanese a little, and I found Kanji far easier to learn than words in hiragana or katakana, cause relating a “picture” to a word seemed far easier for me to parse and remember than to remember “random phonetic encodings”. I’m using quotation marks to indicate my internal experience, cause I’m a little mistrustful by now if I’m even understanding how other people parse words and language.
Either way, that anecdote would point to my pictoral->meaning wiring being stronger than my phoneme-encoding->meaning wiring. Which might explain why processing language as drawings helped me. I really have no idea how much this would generalize. But I agree people must run in to this when learning new alphabets.
Interesting! Thank you for sharing! I’d love to know the answer as well.
Anecdotally, I can say that I did try to learn Japanese a little, and I found Kanji far easier to learn than words in hiragana or katakana, cause relating a “picture” to a word seemed far easier for me to parse and remember than to remember “random phonetic encodings”. I’m using quotation marks to indicate my internal experience, cause I’m a little mistrustful by now if I’m even understanding how other people parse words and language.
Either way, that anecdote would point to my pictoral->meaning wiring being stronger than my phoneme-encoding->meaning wiring. Which might explain why processing language as drawings helped me. I really have no idea how much this would generalize. But I agree people must run in to this when learning new alphabets.