i am one of hose, know how 2 speak it but not no how 2 write or read it, i mean there isnt v. much point in learning it, as when u go bck 2 hong kong, there are always translations in english
i agree .. learning chinese is pretty hard! .. at the moment, i'm studying mando in uni~ it's realli different from canto (which is what i use at home with my parents) .. and yeahh .. it's kinda to our advantage if we noe how to write in chinese too riight!? =D anyhoO .. dunno if yoO guys have ever used this site before .. i find it realli good coz i learn my songs from here before i go to K !! it's got pinyin for even canto songs ! yay! http://www.karazen.com/
my chinese writing is badd... i need to think or copy from somewhere so then i can write. To learn more: read subtitles from tv or read magazines.
Writing is quite heavy...just keep practising.....otherwise you will definitly forget it after a few months. I takes time but it isn't difficult. btw... u can chose between traditional and simplified.
it gets harder as you grow older :( i wish i learned when i was a child.... some girl in my class had THE NERVE to tell me that chinese was one of the easiest languages to learn. that pissed me off..... and she never even learned chinese!!!-shock
myself also don't know how to read and write chinese....... but can speak...... good also to learn chinese ...
lol, can't write chinese either, too lazy to learn, now if i want to learn even harder cause too many other things to worry about lols, i want to though, would be cool to actually know the song's titles in chinese.
^ lols writing and reading in chinese is the same difficulty for me lol, cause i don't know jack about it.
I know how to do both, but not very well ... Reading is easier, because you don't have to memorize every darn stroke!
我是在外國出生的中國人, 但我能讀和寫中文. Haha, I don't know if I wrote that correctly. But yeah, I kind of know how to read/write Chinese, but only a bit. I pretty much learned on my own following a college semester of Chinese, but it's pretty difficult.
Writing is kinda difficult... especially when we live in a day and age where writing isn't as necessary anymore.. Most of the times, I just type, and I only need to remember the important radicals, and there's no need to remember the entire character, stroke-by-stroke. So often times, I find myself unable to complete an entire character by writing. Meh... writing... soon going to be wiped out by typing
For me, typing is comparably much easier than writing them manually. I use a Chinese input program that generates the characters according to their pinyin (pronunciations), and I often get used to typing Chinese on the computer rather than writing them by hand. So I got used to character recognition, but when it comes to hand-writing them, I can't do it because I haven't had the practice and I forgot all the individual strokes, haha. Yup, exactly. I'm not accustomed to writing them either.
i'm going to take some courses after grad, I really want to learn to write and read the language i'm born with. Sure sux when you go to restaurants and you have to say "I want this *points finger*" ________ Suzuki stratosphere history
I can speak and read chinese. writing sometimes, i will forget the stroke but typing is much easier. You need to understand chinese characters because there are so many homophones with different meanings. It is not like english with much less homophones.
i learn from mvs (strange i know), by listening what they're saying and then looking at the chinese characters on the bottom then i memorize it but when it's a series or movie i cant concentrate on the so i cant really memorize it o.o
