Good, simplified is sometimes harder to learn than traditional.
Aiden Barnes
But this is what dictators are for, just force it on everyone
Seriously think of the children (and us foreigners). Make learning chinese easier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Austin Harris
Hi Zhōngguó-kun :)
Robert Nguyen
sup
Noah Taylor
hello my east asian compatriots
Christopher Baker
>枪杆子里面出政权
Lincoln Walker
>kun 中國人唔係日本仔
Justin Reed
Holy shit. I'm glad it didn't come to pass.
Jordan Foster
>come across super detailed analyses of Chinese courts' legal decisions and foreign policy done by foreigners >realize the "the more you study Chinese politics and culture, the less you feel you understand" meme is actually true
It really does, even as a learner a lot of those characters were already fairly simple to remember. I'm surprised they even managed to force everyone to write a different way the first time.
Hunter Johnson
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY BOARD CHINESE FILTH REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Austin Campbell
an authoritarian government requires a much more complex institution to function than other forms of government to do so
Mason Jones
This Fin does it again, never checks if sino already exists
Hudson Parker
天之道,利而不害;人之道,为而弗争
Charles Hernandez
I mean using the 2nd round of simplified characters as a standard didn't come to pass. Those characters look absolutely garbage.
Elijah Foster
>come to pass learnt one thing new today
Isaac Baker
With regards to the first round of simplification, not all of the simplifications were completely new - some were informal simplifications already in use and they were just made official
>Although most of the simplified Chinese characters in use today are the result of the works moderated by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the 1950s and 60s, character simplification predates the PRC's formation in 1949. Cursive written text almost always includes character simplification. Simplified forms used in print have always existed; they date back to as early as the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters#Before_1949
Additionally many more people were illiterate back in those days making it easier to do big changes like simplification
>But according to the Ministry of Education, the overall literacy rate has gone from 20 percent in 1950 to more than 85 percent today. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of illiterate Chinese has been cut by 40 million. nytimes.com/2001/02/12/news/chinas-long-but-uneven-march-to-literacy.html
Wyatt Edwards
清长虫 令郎龙 名忙望
Benjamin Mitchell
anyone studied non-mandarin chinese here?
Liam Kelly
呢到係四仔
Brandon Gray
Only a small bit of Canto
Aiden Russell
顶
Kevin Allen
is it easy to find native material in it? i want to learn the basics of a chinese language, but i don't like mandarin. but it seems like many of the other languages mainly exist as mainly spoken in their communities, with little media.
Robert Thompson
廣東話 but I'm also a heritage speaker
Gavin Nguyen
Cantonese has a lot of materials for it, especially since it's one of the languages of Hong Kong. Take a look at the materials in the OP and you can also find textbooks on Amazon
John Young
check out glossika
Luis Jackson
你们好中国朋友!
Bumping. Feel free to come to my country steal out jobs and buy our factories my Chinese friends
Gavin Clark
They'd rather do that stuff in Canada for some apparent reason. At least they're hard workers and don't commit crimes.