Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st...
by Lfwinster on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:01PM
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totally agree with other two comments, tbh, nobody uses pinyin anymore after grade six, it is really just a stepping stone for kids to learn chinese before they can memorize all the common characters help them to read. As a Chinese i actually hate pinin as an adult because my name would appear in Pinin on my passport and it loses all its meaning.
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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st...
by jason_slack on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:05PM
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Yeah I follow you. Pinyin helped me learn tones and reading. But now I can look at a character and find the radical. Then could the remaining strokes and look it up in a paper dictionary.
I have the books school children buy in china and yeah 7+ it’s just characters.