Can Chinese Write Their Own Language? | ASIAN BOSS
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Published 2018-07-19
We hit the streets of Shanghai, China to find out if they can write Chinese. The opinions expressed in this video are those of individual interviewees alone and do not reflect the views of ASIAN BOSS or the general Chinese population.
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All Comments (21)
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That one guy that says "Sometimes I wonder, why I even went to school" is a big mood. EDIT: how would I know the translation is wrong? I don't speak Chinese 😂
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Whenyou realize that drawing a thumb is probly easier than writing the word thumb in chinese...
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Me teaching myself Chinese using YouTube 👁️👄👁️ What a motivational video full of positive vibes
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if you ask any student in middle or high school, they could easily ace the test since they’re writing every day. When you graduate and stop handwriting essays and start typing, you quickly forget everything.
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* creators of Chinese language : how many characters should Chinese have ? *Chinese language: yes
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Chinese: * 80,00 characters * English: *laughs in 26 letters *
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Native English speakers struggle with English. A good example: "your" and "you're."
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"the test won't be that difficult" The test: write an essay using traditional Chinese in about 2000 words
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Haha the guy killed me when he said "at this point I'm just drawing pictures." He and I could be friends 😁
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girl: "i think i know all the characters" after toothpaste: "WHATS THE TOP ONE"
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The situation is even worse for us who write traditional Chinese. I’m in my 30’s. I didn’t really realise the issue until I wanted to send a postcard to my friend while traveling. I suddenly found myself struggling a bit. From then on, I started to write Chinese for 15 mins every day (e.g. copy from a newspaper article) and my muscle memory has returned. It has also become some sort of therapy for me when I can sit down quietly and focus on doing one thing only. 多寫多練習，別無他法！
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Asian Mom: Such a disgrace, cant even memorize 9000 words.
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Chinese Language has 92,000 characters. 14,000 characters are taught in 10 years of schooling. Only around 3,000 characters are needed in daily life conversation or to read a newspaper.
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Girl: I know all of the characters Random reporter: Pls write down "thumb" Girl: Eh? LUL
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As a Chinese learner, this makes me feel so much better! I’ve taken chinese classes at the advanced and superior level, but still forgot how to write a ton of characters 😩😩
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Me : lets learn Hanzi and Kanji Also my brain : の
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LANGUAGE: Chinese DIFFICULTY LEVEL :Chinese
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As a n00b studying Chinese in my free time, it's actually a bit comforting to see native speakers mess up writing relatively basic words. :)
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For those wondering why people can recognise characters but can't write them. Imagine trying to draw the symbol for nuclear hazards or bio waste, you'd have difficulty drawing it perfect but when you see it you can recognise it immediately.
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As an adult in China, most of the time all you really need to do is to be able to recognize the characters, which is a lot easier than memorizing each little detail of every character, because a lot is electronic nowadays. Students though, they have to know these for their classes.
