Exactly. I&#x27;ve started learning Japanese less than two years ago, and with some determination and a tool that supports efficient memorization (thank you <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wanikani.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wanikani.com</a>) the writing system starts to &#x27;click&#x27; once you&#x27;ve reached about 500 Kanji, which took me less than 2 years on a casual schedule. From there, recognizing and learning new words that are a combination of these 500 Kanji starts to come almost automatically (meaning, and reading). Latin languages have the same thing to some extent, but much less so, some words are composed by combining other words, but most things have their own proper noun which can only be remembered by rote memorization. For example the word &#x27;swan&#x27; would be 「白鳥」 in Japanese, which would literally translate to (and is pronounced as) &#x27;white bird&#x27;. Japanese, and I guess also Chinese, is full of these words.<p>I found the article narrow-minded and short-sighted, and can only assume the author never spent any effort learning a logographic language. I recognize the sentiment from back when I just started learning Kanji, but it doesn&#x27;t take too long before your brain seems to &#x27;rewire&#x27; for the different way to write, recognize and compose words, and you start to see the benefits.