Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes

Re:Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes by Produce on Friday May 04, 2012 @08:19AM (#3928040)

Started losing me at: 学字 - creative teaching & boring teaching, I don't understand how those two stack and what they mean in unison. The last paragraph lost me completely.

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Re:Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes by alanning on Friday May 04, 2012 @09:19AM (#3928221)

I was disappointed with that section as well. Thought it could have been written clearer to differentiate the two.

学 - study

字 - character

So the author actually meant boring teaching of 'characters' with the section on 字 but I don't think it came across well.

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Re:Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes by elliotlai on Friday May 04, 2012 @10:20AM (#3928442)

In my point of view, as a native Traditional Chinese user (I'm from Taiwan)

THIS ARTICLE IS SO WRONG!

学 is actually the simplified version of the character 學. And the character 子 in both of these characters doesn't really have much connections

The character 子 (literally means children) in 學 stands for "student", but in 字 it is just a rebus (phonetic loan) character.

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Re:Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes by raldi on Friday May 04, 2012 @10:27AM (#3928492)

学 means "learn"

字 means "characters"

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Re:Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes by grovecai on Saturday May 05, 2012 @08:50AM (#3932017)

>字 means "characters" Not exactly! Single 字 has meanings in Chinese, but single character generally has no meaning in English.

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