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| CJoQ Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4586 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 6 27 April 2012 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi everyone,
I am currently in the very early stages of learning Mandarin, however at the moment I have been working with the idea that I should only be able to 'speak what I can also write'. However, the time it takes to memorise stroke orders far outweighs the time it takes for me to learn how to say a pronounce a word and its tone. Is there any problem with learning how to speak at a faster pace and then revert back to learning how to write afterwards, in a trailing fashion? The reason I ask is because its quite a slow process learning both the written and spoken at the same time. What are your thoughts? Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4679 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 2 of 6 27 April 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not that I endorse "learn like a child" methods generally, but isn't that what every native speaker does?
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 6 27 April 2012 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | ||
I started learning Japanese using romaji, specifically because I didn't want to wait until I could read and write. Writing is an artificial part of language -- the real language is spoken. However, to avoid overwhelming problems later, I'd continue learning characters in parallel. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4679 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 4 of 6 27 April 2012 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Itching for another written vs. spoken pie fight, I see... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LaughingChimp Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4690 days ago 346 posts - 594 votes Speaks: Czech* | Message 5 of 6 27 April 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think there shouldn't be any problems - as geoffw said, every native speaker learns to speak first. Edited by LaughingChimp on 27 April 2012 at 10:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5169 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 6 of 6 29 April 2012 at 1:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Most textbooks use characters with pinyin under.
Nǐ qù Běijīng Fàndiàn gàn shénme? 你去北京饭店干什么？ So it's not a big problem! The first words foreigners learn in Chinese are not the ones that use the simplest characters, and it's important to learn from the basics when it comes to characters, so I think it's good to separate hanzi learning with other stuff. 我 maening 'I, me' is hard to learn, but it's used very often (like in English the word 'I' is) but if you know the radicals the thing is much easier to remember. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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