Taking a Chinese course in China is a huge commitment. What type of characters you have to choose to learn? Traditional vs . Simplified Chinese characters?
Simplified Chinese vs Traditional Chinese 🤔 This will depend on your goals and where you want to study or live in 2023 and beyond. Let’s help you decide.
If you have just a little bit more time, I refer you to my Fancy Flowchart™ (aka:Mandarin Mama’s Guide to Deciding Whether Your Child Should Learn Traditional vs Simplified Chinese Characters) that should help 80% of you out there. As for the remaining 20%, let’s be real. No flo...
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Both Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters are used to write the same language (i.e., Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.) While they generally follow the same grammatical rules and sentence structure, there are some differences in word choice, vocabulary usage, and character sequences. ...
I have seen so many people who are confused about Mandarin, Cantonese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, even those in translation profession. So today I will clarify this once and for all. First, Mandarin (oral Chinese) or Simplified Chinese (written Chinese) is ...
簡體字的缺點Simplified Character Disadvantages 太粗糙,有違漢字造字原則、藝術性和科學性,如工厂的“厂”;It is too rough and violates the principle of making Chinese words artistically and scientifically. 筆畫太相近,容易混淆。如“厂”和“广”,“庄”和“压”;The strokes are too similar and easy to...
The Simplified Chinese characters were modified from the original Traditional Chinese characters, which have more strokes.Traditional Chinese 繁体中文 fan4 ti3 zhong1 wen2 is a term that refers to either the Taiwanese Chinese dialect of Chinese (the Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan) or Cantonese ...
Chinese is a tonal language, meaning that the tone in which a word is spoken can change its meaning. Pinyin represents these tones with diacritical marks above the main vowel of the syllable. There are four tones in Mandarin, and each has a corresponding mark in Pinyin: ...
Simplified and Traditional Chinese refers only to the written word while Mandarin and Cantonese refer to dialects of the spoken word. Therefore Mandarin or Cantonese cannot be used fordocument translationnor can interpretation be done in Simplified or Traditional Chinese. ...