I Hate Hanzi
Home New Posts
Login: Pass: Log in or register for standard view and full access.
Page 8 of 8 First < 67 8
renzhe -
Quote:
Chinese is very simple.
Now i am studying french. I think it is more difficult than Chinise
Asian people (those fluent in an East Asian language like Korean or Japanese) tend to feel this
way.
I've never heard a European claim this.
French is really easy for anyone who has studied Latin. Which is most of Europe.
I got far more in three weeks of studying German than a year of studying Chinese. At least it
feels that way.
Pleco Software Learn Chinese with our Dictionaries for Palm and Pocket PC.
Learn Chinese in China Learn to speak Chinese 1MonthChinese.com -Mandarin School in China.
Chinese Textbooks Wide range, cheap, varied languages. Also Chinese cartoons, toys, gifts.
Study Chinese in Beijing Affordable Mandarin language courses at BLCU with ChinaUnipath.com.
HNHSoft Dictionary Learn Chinese on Smartphone and PDA with real person's voice.
XueXueXue IQChinese Get beyond the plateau.Take your Mandarin to a new level.
Chinese in Lijiang Short term Chinese study in a beautiful town with a focus on daily life.
MandarinTube Chinese Access to current everyday Chinese language and culture, 24/7.
Learn Chinese Homestay Chinese course, cultural activities & volunteer events in China.
Learn Chinese Online 1-on-1 instant tutoring, diverse courses, native teachers. FREE trial now!
Nihao Chinese Progam Free one-on-one Chinese lesson. Win 5-years of free lessons now!
About Ads (and how to hide them) -- Your message here
rezaf -
i like 汉字 because it is a challenge but you can never compare it with difficulties of other
languages. even the most educated people often make mistakes in writing hanzi, let alone poor
老外.
johnLi -
To fully understand Chinese, it is necessary to learn some traditional chinese culture and
philosophies. A good book may interest you is called shuo1 wen2 jie3 zi4 which aims to give an
explanation of many chinese characters and their origins. It was completed in Han dynasty, and
became the foundation of later chinese character study. For instance, wen2 zi4 (means chinese
characters), wen2 itself contains the meaning of drawing or painting, while zi4 contains the
meaning of sound, or pronounciation. So wen2 zi4 originally means drawing with pronounciation, and
it is fairly correct to say that almost every chinese character is a picture with sound.
85642043 -
I am a Chinese, I see you studying very hard, I hope you can successfully learn Chinese
characters. Do not hate it. In this gave him my blessing! Tell you a skill: difficult to learn
Chinese characters, people with no end in sight. You learned some words will always have
more生字stopped in front of the road leading to read. To overseas non-Chinese environment as an
example, the children learn 800-900 words is not difficult, but the reading is smooth, very few
left. So to the生字to learn and understand the characters have to learn to think. People most
common misconception is a Chinese and Bingyinwenzi against each other. As everyone knows, the
voice is the most basic elements of language, is reflected in the text, Bingyinwenzi. Chinese
characters commonly used in more than 85% for the formation of the word. Chinese development is
the main theme of voice, but by the way some special only. Chinese characters are not taking the
sounds of letters written Road. Chinese mainstream following the syllables of the phonetic
alphabet text line. The so-called phonetic alphabet, as the Japanese pseudonym, as is the
integrity of the syllables, and not consonant and vowel arbitrary form themselves into the number.
Phonography is only suitable for small syllable language. Chinese Table Italian unit is the basic
word, and little syllable (400 ~), the development of Chinese characters used two methods to
distinguish a homonym of the word, first fight vary, "ai", as an example, there are "love mourning
Yi Yi" and several different fight. Table 2 is intended also to the "ai", as an example, the same
pronunciation as "ai", the radical different in different words, pay Alas Egypt, and Italy form
part of the logic and meaning of Chinese characters to strengthen the capacity of expression.
Probably about 800 Chinese phonetic characters.
channamasala -
Other than having to learn lots of unfamiliar vocabulary (removing the crutch of being able to
guess the vocab from French to English) I also feel that Chinese is easier to learn to speak than
French for a native English speaker (American, studied Latin for a year, quit when I decided I
wanted to go to China). It's the minimalist grammar. I love it.
But writing it is insanely hard, and where I've been focusing my energy lately. I spent a year in
China and was familiar enough with a few hundred Chinese characters, but not really well enough to
read, but I learned basically how to speak. Now that I'm in Taiwan I do practice speaking to keep
up speed and fluency and to insert the occasional new vocabulary word, but my study sessions have
stopped being about spoken vocabulary and started to be about writing (traditional, though I'm
happy I got a grounding in Simplified in China...though I find Traditional to be a thoroughly
superior system unless one needs to dash off a quick note. For that, even Taiwanese often revert
to simplified forms of many characters).
As the great John DeFrancis said, speaking Chinese is only about 5% harder than speaking French
(for an English native speaker). Writing Chinese is about 500 times harder.
dougdu -
As it's known, the more you learn, the harder it gets. Correct! That's our memory cells working
the best!
过一天少一天~~~~~
geek_frappa -
Quote:
Same pronunciation, same tone
Same pronunciation, different tone
Similar pronunciation, same tone
Similar pronunciation, different tone
New pronunciation, same tone
New pronunciation, different tone.
learning Hanzi also frustrated at time, but this gave me insight into English. Imagine how an
English language learner feels.
dough ... that's d-oh
cough ... that's c-off
tough ... no, that's t-uff
though ... no, no, that's th-owe
thorough ... no no no no that is thu-ruh
this is what makes second language acquisition so fun.
dporter1465 -
What I find most frustrating is how difficult it is to measure my progress. When I go running, I
can time myself on my regular course. If I'm trying to lose weight, I can get on the scale each
morning. If I'm writing an article, I can count up the words I've added each day. But reading
Chinese started out being tough, it remains tough, and I expect it will always be tough, whatever
level I reach. I was motivated by this frustration to create a character test that can be used to
estimate how many characters you know. If you take it regularly using consistent parameters (the
72-item test is most accurate) it can be useful for establishing a benchmark and measuring
progress over time. It doesn't make learning the characters any less painful, but at least there's
some tangible sense of accomplishment when you first hit the 1000 or 2000 or 3000 character mark!
The link is http://www.clavisinica.com/resources.html .
All times are GMT +8. The time now is 07:06 PM.
chinese language, learning chinese china, HSK, learn chinese writing, learn chinese characters, HSK Exam, chinese school, teach chinese, chinese schools, learn mandarin, learning mandarin, learning chinese, study in chinese, learn chinese abroad, speak chinese, chinese studies, how to learn chinese, learn chinese china, learn chinese online, chinese language online, learn chinese in china, study chinese online, chinese language program, chinese language school, chinese language schools, chinese speaking, learn chinese, learn mandarin online, learn to write chinese, beijing chinese language school, chinese language china, chinese language classes, chinese language courses, chinese language learning,
