Hello there!
It's another week of learning in UP in Mindanao, but it will be tomorrow.
I asked this question in Yahoo! Answers six months ago. Now I need the voice of the Blogger people to answer this:
Are you in favour of abolishing Traditional Chinese? Chinese is the language with the most number of speakers. It has a unified writing system, whatever dialect you are speaking, Mandarin, Min, Cantonese, etc.
China has made efforts to simplify the methods of learning this "complicated" language. It simplified the characters that were "complicated" to write. It made a new romanization system, HanYu PinYin to make the foreigners "recognize the pronunciation of Mandarin easier".
But on the other side of it, Traditional Chinese, practiced in Taiwan, has been recognized as the most important aspect in Chinese learning. They still write the actual characters. They still practice the original phonetic symbols, ZhuYin FuHao. They don't support writing simplified characters.
As a stude learning both forms, I realized that Traditional Chinese characters emphasizes the actual meaning of the word; Simplified Chinese does not. ZhuYin FuHao can be pronounced accurately, if skilled enough; PinYin does not.
So, will you still support TradChinese? |
Click here to see the question in Yahoo! Answers. You can see the answers of the Yahoo! people.I'm still fed up by the 'memories' of my Chinese lessons back in Colegio de San Ignacio. But staying in UP will be worthwhile. :-)
See you in the next post!
KENNETH
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