Do I need to learn kanji to speak/write japanese?


I'm learning Japanese but do I have to learn kanji, because I don't want to
learn 50,000 letters.




You don't need kanji to speak Japanese, but I would suggest that not learning
kanji would make learning the vocabulary harder.

You don't strictly need to know kanji to write understandable Japanese.
However, if you do write entirely in kana it will make your writing incredibly
difficult for other people to read.

50,000 is a big exaggeration. The standard list is a little over 2000 kanji.

You didn't ask, but if you want to **read** Japanese you will make almost no
progress without learning kanji.

In short, learn kanji. It's hard but it can be fun and very rewarding.

