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This analogy fails when you consider Chinese and similarly encoded written systems. Sure, there are methods employed that use radicals in order to provide phone
by jaykru 10y ago
This analogy fails when you consider Chinese and similarly encoded written systems. Sure, there are methods employed that use radicals in order to provide phonetic "hints," but written Chinese is predominantly acquired through rote memorization. Many countries that use written Chinese today have comparable literacy rates to countries that use syllabic and phonetic systems. What have they done right that took phonics for us to do?
- hyperion2010 10y agoI think the difference here is that reading is considered to be so important that people don't just stop if a child doesn't learn it. The child will end up spending an enormous amount of time studying something when another technique might allow them to learn it more quickly. There is no similar equivalent for learning how to program. No one is going to prevent a student from graduating college until they figure out how to read and write a computer program, and you sure as hell can't prevent them from going out to play.