Tuesday, October 29, 2019

lovely Chinese character

How many characters are there?

Altogether there are over 50,000 characters, though a comprehensive modern dictionary will rarely list over 20,000 in use. An educated Chinese person will know about 8,000 characters, but you will only need about 2-3,000 to be able to read a newspaper.

in short:
2-3000 to read
~8000 to be an educated person
~20,000 in use
~50,000 in total

從今天開始 與外國人介紹自己的語言時 改口說 I SPEAK MANDARIN
如果你遇到有人問你「Mandarin」是不是「Chinese」,你也可以回答說Chinese的定義很廣泛,中國境內有許許多多的語言以及在地方言,也都可以歸類在「Chinese」裡面,因此只說我的語言是「Chinese」不夠精準。正確來說我懂的是「Mandarin」,而「Taiwanese Mandarin」與大部分中國人用的「Chinese Mandarin」使用習慣上是有相當的區別的。
I am from Taiwan
I am Taiwanese
I speak (Taiwanese) Mandarin

原來是這樣,Chinese是泛指所有在中國說的語言跟方言
Mandarin是指普通話/官話/國語
我們所使用的正體中文和臺灣國語
writing system: traditional Chinese & language: Taiwanese Mandarin

來自中國的文化傳承不見得是現代中國的一部分,對於什麼都愛沾光跟裝熟的,分外討厭。

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