how do japanese read and write?do they realy have 6000 letters?how do they learn so many letters?

Question

are 6000 words realy needed I mean?

Answer 1

they are not letters they are symbols, and they read from top to bottom and left to right i believe.

Answer 2

Japanese use a complex system of writing that use two phonetic alphabets, called Kana, as well as Chinese characters, which they call Kanji. The kana alphabets each have 46 characters, and is capable of conveying any sound in the Japanese language. One alphabet, called Hiragana, is used for words that are native to Japanese, as well as sentence particles. The other alphabet, Katakana, is used for foriegn words that are used in Japanese. The Japanese also use a little less than 2000 Kanji, each one representing a particular thing or idea, but may have several pronunciations.

Answer 3

No, that's malarky. There are probably approximately 6000 chinese characters that CAN be used in Japanese, but there are hardly any Japanese people who actually know all of them. There's what's called the jouyou (常用) which is the kanji is common usage. They total up to less than 2000 kanji. If you add kanji that is often used in names, you have a total of approximately 2000 kanji.
There are three "alphabets", or character systems in Japanese; hiragana, katakana and kanji. Children in primary school start by learning hiragana and katakana only. They each have about 60 characters in them, and they are very simple and phonetic, so they only really take a few months to memorize if you practice regularly. Each hiragana/katakana character (often called "kana") represents one phonetic syllable. So, if you have a word like kareshi (which means "boyfriend"), it would be spelled かれし (ka-re-shi). That's hiragana, because it's a Japanese word. Katakana works under the same system, but for foreign words (or, often, for Japanese words that are written in kanji that nobody remembers any more). So katakana is used for stuff like naifu (which means "knife"), and is spelled ナイフ (na-i-fu).
Kanji is a more complex and definitely deeper character system. Each character contains, generally, from one to three syllables and represents a specific definition. Also, each character can usually be read at least two different ways. For instance, the character 国 is read "ku-ni" if it's by itself, and means "country" or "nation." The character 話　is read "ha-na-shi" if it's by itself and means "language." If you put them together you get 国語, which is read "ko-ku-go" ("koku" and "go"), and this means "national language." Students generally learn about 200-300 kanji a year by a strict, rigorous rote system, just writing them over and over and over again.