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Does this mean the spoken language Mandarin, or written Chinese, which I didn't think was called Mandarin? I've been thinking learning to read Simplified Chine
by perl4ever 6y ago
Does this mean the spoken language Mandarin, or written Chinese, which I didn't think was called Mandarin?
I've been thinking learning to read Simplified Chinese writing, alone, might be useful, for someone who doesn't want to go to China.
Looking at the Wikipedia page on Kangxi radicals made the task seem relatively much more feasible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical
- senkora 6y agoIf you just want to learn the characters, then these books provide a good system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji_and_Remembering_the_Hanzi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji_and_Re... I’m 1000 characters in after 4 months of 1 hour a day study, but some people report quicker progress, so YMMV. You’ll still need to learn a bunch of words though, since most words in Mandarin are two characters long. Written Chinese is still called Mandarin. There’s Literary Chinese, which is different, but you don’t want to learn that. There’s no standard way to write other Chinese languages, like Cantonese, in characters. People still do but there’s no standard for it.