youngloco

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From :   luke georgiou

Date : 2008-04-02 / 04:50PM

Ni hao lao shi benny. i just started a manderin class in my uni. a few of my class mate quit the course because they are making us learn charecters straight away. do you think it would be easier without them. oh and is written charecters in taiwan different to china. thanks

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Jenny

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 Jenny Li hotmail.com 
2008-04-02 / 05:26PM

Hi, Luke, Nice pic~
In Taiwan, they use traditional chinese. But in China Mainland,we use simplified chinese. However, there is not too much difficulty to understand each other. Pronounciation is the same just differences in spelling.
I think you may start from Pinyin. That will make you easier.

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-04-02 / 08:29PM

Hi Luke, I think it’s not a correct way to learn characters first, for Chinese and for any other languages, the first step is to communicate with people. When you have enough amount of vocabulary, then you can start to learn writing

Therefor, I would suggest you to use AskBenny to learn Chinese.

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