How important is it to learn how to write Chinese?
I already know a fair amount of Spanish and a little Japanese, so learning Chinese shouldn’t be too hard. It’s just that I don’t think I’d remember how to write the symbols. I would still learn how to speak it and read the symbols, but I wouldn’t take the time to learn how to write them. It seems like there are so many. Would that be enough to get by? I would like to use Chinese to talk to people and possibly for business purposes in the future.
Chosen Answer:
It would be easy for you to remember the Chinese symbols since you already knew Japanese. Japanese kanji originates from Chinese characters. In Mandarin, it is called hanzi. English is still the dominant language in terms of commerce, but it’s good to learn Mandarin Chinese if you wish to do business with the Chinese in China even though it is not compulsory as most Chinese understand English.
by: Jea
on: 26th June 09
not important at all unless you live in china. i live in the usa and i don’t know anyone who writes or speaks chinese.
Writing/reading Chinese is definitely the hardest part because it’s ALL memorization. If you’re there for business purposes, it’s best just to be able to understand and speak the language. They don’t expect you to write/read because most ‘foreigners’ have a secretary to help write/translate to Chinese for you.
Learn to understand/speak first. That’s the most important part. Then eventually if you’re in China long enough, you’ll be able to recognize/read basic characters. It’s almost impossible to learn to write most/all Chinese characters if you didn’t start as a kid.
Good luck with learning Chinese!! don’t hesitate to speak & learn from others, it’s the best way to practice the pronunciation and tones.
Not important unless you really need to communicate in writing in Chinese, even you have to, you’d better hire some Chinese to do. It takes a lot of effort and if you don’t use it you forgot it.
It would be easy for you to remember the Chinese symbols since you already knew Japanese. Japanese kanji originates from Chinese characters. In Mandarin, it is called hanzi. English is still the dominant language in terms of commerce, but it’s good to learn Mandarin Chinese if you wish to do business with the Chinese in China even though it is not compulsory as most Chinese understand English.
Now, typing Chinese is more important.
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Spanish won’t help you at all in learning Chinese… Japanese helps if you know some kanji. Well if you’re doing business in China, it’s important that you speak Chinese. They’re not called symbols, they’re called WORDS. Well the only that you would know how to read them is practice to write them, that’s the fastest way. As for speaking it, you would get very confused because it is VERY different from English (assuming that English is your first language), it does not have an alphabet (unlike Spanish and Japanese) and it’s all about memorising, the only way you can learn Chinese is to attend a class and start hanging around Chinese-speaking people a lot. China is one sixths of the world’s population, so I guess there’s at least 2 billion people on Earth who speak the language. Other Chinese-speaking countries are Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong (Cantonese), Singapore.
Its good that you are thinking about to do business with chinese, as china’s economy is increasing rapidly.. read more about chinese business language levels- http://www.chinesesphere.com/business.php
Chinese is not easy, trust me.
If you going to do business with chinese, learn some chinese slang.
learn the phrase most chinese men use when they first open their mouth.. It sound like a greeting