ccp promoted simple chinese text and moved away from the traditional
now you have 2 groups of chinese people: those that can read old chinese documents and those who can't
i wouldn't be surprised if today and ebs alert came on to announce that the purpose of gov funded pub school curriculum was/is/always will be to make kids illiterate, especially in historic documents
Considering the public schools graduate students who are functionally illiterate (graduation rate is tied to funding), if it's not intentional, it's at least predictable.
ccp promoted simple chinese text and moved away from the traditional
now you have 2 groups of chinese people: those that can read old chinese documents and those who can't
i wouldn't be surprised if today and ebs alert came on to announce that the purpose of gov funded pub school curriculum was/is/always will be to make kids illiterate, especially in historic documents
Considering the public schools graduate students who are functionally illiterate (graduation rate is tied to funding), if it's not intentional, it's at least predictable.
I'm studying traditional style Mandarin right now.
Writing succccccccks.... English letters are so amazingly easy to write compared to Chinese, let me tell you...
Simplified seems like a great option, but I don't want to learn any stinkin' commie Chinese.