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I think it just wasn't sunk in very well - the kids were both fluent at their level (a 3/5 year old isn't ultra-proficient in any language, but it was their pri
by westiseast 9y ago
I think it just wasn't sunk in very well - the kids were both fluent at their level (a 3/5 year old isn't ultra-proficient in any language, but it was their primary form of communication), but they just very quickly dropped it because it wasn't useful anymore.
Not sure what level you're at - the hand writing is hard, takes Chinese people years and years of repetition and constant exposure. I always thought learning reading/typing Chinese is an essential part of learning Chinese, but hand-writing it is an optional (or something you can allow to progress much much slower). I read and write at an HSK6 level, but I doubt I could hand-write more than 1000 characters from memory. Meh.
- jason_slack 9y agoI read and write at about HSK 5 right now. My oral is not at that level. I often dont hear the correct tones, nor speak the correct tones. I love handwriting characters! Every day I try and learn one new character. Every week I review the characters I learned that week and write over and over as many sentences as I can think of. Each month I use one Sunday to try and write the 1500 most commonly used characters to see how many I can remember. (https://store.mandarinposter.com/shop/1500-character-mandarin-poster https://store.mandarinposter.com/shop/1500-character-mandari...). My wife thinks I use entirely to much paper. :-)
- westiseast 9y agoHaha yeah if you enjoy it, then it's worth doing. It's almost something you could do independent of actually learning the language. Have you ever seen those copy books of Tang Poetry? Not sure where you'd buy them, but they're collections of poems on cheap paper where you can trace the characters on a grid and then space for you to write them yourself. They're fun.
- jason_slack 9y agoThanks I will look up the books and see how I can buy them.