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 Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:46 am
Okay, so I've studied the kanji a bit, but I've heard that the Chinese characters vary a bit in meaning sometimes. So I was wondering, does anybody know a good book or resource to help one learn to read Chinese?
And how many people here can/can't read it anyway? It looks like a daunting task to learn all those characters, but I figure that if I study a bit day by day and just be consistant I'll pick it up no problem. Or maybe I'm being overconfidant. whee
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:56 am
i can't read 99% of the chinese characters...
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:44 pm
Not really sure where to find a decent source, but here's a hint: Don't use online translators. Some of them are okay, but the majority of them are waaay off. I looked up "Badger" in the google translator and it gave me the character for "Cougar"
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:45 pm
xoxCharlenexox i can't read 99% of the chinese characters... Woah. eek You're joking right?
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:07 pm
I only know a few, well its the simple ones actually. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:47 pm
xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox i can't read 99% of the chinese characters... Woah. eek You're joking right?
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:56 pm
xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox i can't read 99% of the chinese characters... Woah. eek You're joking right? lol, I see. I can read some traditional chinese! mrgreen
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:49 am
xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox i can't read 99% of the chinese characters... Woah. eek You're joking right? lol, I see. I can read some traditional chinese! mrgreen
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:16 am
@Snuff - hmm. Depends on where you live.. best thing to do is find an overseas Chinese textbook written for people who speak English. I've seen some (my school got an order of them in, they're thinking of introducing mandarin as a foreign language course whee ) and they're actually quite good. 3nodding
Or go and live in China for a year. That works, too. whee
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:23 am
I'll definitely try to get my hands on a textbook. It'll be a while until I can afford that, though. In the meantime, my local library has a really good language learning track set that includes Chinese. I haven't tried the Chinese one yet, but the Japanese one was well put together, and it's the same company, so....ya know. whee I've done some digging around on the web over the last couple of days and I found a couple sites that seem to be a good reference for characters. I've been using this page to find some basic characters. And I know the page says "Kanji", but if you follow the links for the individual characters, they give the Chinese Pinyin for it too. I then use this page to cross-ref it to get the proper meaning. What do you guys think? Does it look like a good idea? And I thought--if it is--then someone else wanting to look into learning characters could try the same thing. whee
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:13 pm
I can only read a few letters I can't read the same amount that charlene can't read
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:32 pm
xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox i can't read 99% of the chinese characters... Woah. eek You're joking right? lol, I see. I can read some traditional chinese! mrgreen Oh, I see. I started in a late age, I started at like 10 years old. xp
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:45 am
Snuff - It's probably quite good to start with.. it's the primary school chinese character learning system for Japan, no? I think it's quite a good way of getting the basics. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:58 am
xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox i can't read 99% of the chinese characters... Woah. eek You're joking right? lol, I see. I can read some traditional chinese! mrgreen Oh, I see. I started in a late age, I started at like 10 years old. xp
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:27 pm
xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox xXHotBabiBluXx xoxCharlenexox well one day,,i was talking to my sis...nd i told her the exact same thing " i don't know how to read 90% of the chinese characters" her reply" u don't know that much! theres alot of chinese characters!" so i guess 99 would be how much i can't read... lol, I see. I can read some traditional chinese! mrgreen Oh, I see. I started in a late age, I started at like 10 years old. xp Fuuny mom, I learn chinese from weatching tvb shows, it really really helps. 3nodding
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