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Heisig will have you learn handwriting, yes. Because that is explicitly all you practice in that method. Aside: Do you learn simplified or traditional? I learn
by adastra22 2y ago
Heisig will have you learn handwriting, yes. Because that is explicitly all you practice in that method.
Aside: Do you learn simplified or traditional? I learned traditional. I would have anyway because my wife is Taiwanese, but I advocate others to do the same because it is arguably the same difficulty if not easier. And going traditional -> simplified is tractable whereas the reverse is not.
Learning the Heisig method is similar: learning from a perspective of handwriting is easier, and you get the ability to read “for free.” It’s a better approach, even if you never need to write by hand.
- eloisius 2y agoAlso traditional, and I agree it’s easier to remember them than simplified characters even if they are more complicated to write.
- adastra22 2y agoSo you have a reference point for this. When you learn a character by the Heisig method, you go from meaning -> writing. You don’t bother practicing reading -> meaning. It turns out that it’s very easy to go from writing to reading, much like going from traditional to simplified, but the reverse not so much.