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QUESTION: Anyone who
has attempted to learn the Chinese
language will tell you how hard
it is to learn the characters that
make up the written Chinese language.
Chinese language experts have recorded
a total of 54,000 unique characters
- making learning the Chinese language
something of an enormous feat for
anyone.
Unlike English
with its 26-letter alphabet, Chinese
'words' cannot be sounded out letter
by letter and characters are usually
learned by rote.
How
many characters are Chinese students
in the fourth grade expected to
know?
A. 2,000
B. 40,000
C. 500
D. 2,500
ANSWERS:
If you said A, you are right.
The school curriculum is designed
to teach students around 2,000 characters
by the fourth grade and further
3,000 by the end of college or university.
Each character is learned by looking
at it, memorizing it and writing
it over and over.
Sometimes
you will see young children and
their parents practicing with 'flash-cards'
that are used to aid the process. |
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