Me personally, I've been taking Japanese for a few months now. Kanji is hard, but it's like killing 'counts on fingers' 6 birds with one stone. China had dominance over most of asia, so even though the pronunciation is different in the other countries (Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Mongolia) all the Kanji (chinese characters) all mean the same thing in each of the countries, if you can't speak the language, you can at least read it and thus you'll still be able to find your way around. Korea, not so much since they abolished Kanji at one point, but after realizing how difficult it was to do international business, they brought it back, it's a slow process.
Now I personally have the Hiragana chart memorized and I probably know 12 or 13 basic Kanji (10 of them being the numbers... T-T) but I'm actually having some really hard time learning Katakana myself... My Japanese teacher agrees that it's harder to memorize... but still it's a pain...
I try to avoid Romaji as much as possible... Kanji for the win!


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