User blog comment:Mikuru Kanzaki/Learn Japanese from other users!/@comment-26426093-20160601041719

I guess I should at least try to contibute to this blog, since it's for the benefit of this wiki. I only recently started to take up Japanese language classes (Saturday mornings) some 3 months back. Although that means that my knowledge of Japanese skills is still at the beginners level, just moving quite close to intermediate level.

But...

One of the major advantages I have over some of the others is that I am Canadian-Chinese. It means that due to my knowledge of Chinese, which shares lingustic similarities with the Japanese language, I have been able to grasp and understand much of the kanji (hanzi/ 汉字) which has allowed me to learn over a hundred words in just three months. Of course, there's also the hiragana and katakana to deal with, but when it comes to memorizing these characters, usually Chinese speakers like me have a huge advantage over westerners whose native tongue is based on Latin, due to the fact that chinese and japanese share common lingustic roots like i mentioned earlier.

Not trying to brag or anything, just stating the obvious. I still have much to learn, but if there's a random word that needs to be translated, then I can probably help out.