Taiwanese Mandarin or Chinese Mandarin?
2017-06-04 8:11 am
Hello everyone I'm worried as I learned that Taiwanese Mandarin and Chinese Mandarin are different. I'm mostly interested in learning Mandarin because of Taiwan (not that I'm not interested in visiting China) and I'm confused on what should I learn, Should I learn Simplified Chinese or traditional, If I learn the traditional will I be able to understand the simplified as well? This gives me stress don't know where to start. ;/
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2017-06-04 1:20 pm
Don't angst about the difference between traditional and simplified characters. There really aren't that many that are different, and many of them you can figure out without having learned them.
2017-06-04 10:31 am
FYI: Simply put, the Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese are different only in some characters; its pronunciation, rhetorical and syntactic level are all the same (For native Chinese speaker, we have never been taught anything about Chinese grammar). If you can learn traditional Chinese well, then in most case, to read Simplified Chinese is a cinch, but vice-versa may not be the true if you learn Simplified Chinese.
The above point might not be the key points to make your decision as the people who use traditional Chinese as I do who live here in Taiwan is “1”, and the people who use Simplified Chinese is “50”.
To go it further, the people who live in China, if they want to delve into Chinese literature to read the books published before 1956 or so, they still need to know the Traditional Chinese, though I don’t think it’s very difficult, but at least it’s not a no-brainer cinch.
The above point might not be the key points to make your decision as the people who use traditional Chinese as I do who live here in Taiwan is “1”, and the people who use Simplified Chinese is “50”.
To go it further, the people who live in China, if they want to delve into Chinese literature to read the books published before 1956 or so, they still need to know the Traditional Chinese, though I don’t think it’s very difficult, but at least it’s not a no-brainer cinch.
2017-06-04 9:40 am
Back when I studied Chinese, our teachers never distinguished between Taiwan Mandarin vs. mainland Mandarin. A Beijing accent was considered the ideal to strive for, but it was assumed that Beijing Mandarin would see us through just fine if we ended up in Taiwan. So maybe you're stressing over nothing. (Unfortunately I never made it to either China or Taiwan, but that's another story.)
As far as characters go, I found traditional characters easier to learn. The radicals (the components that make up the character) can often be used to make up a little story that helps you remember what the character means. This isn't really possible with simplified. So, if I were you, I'd learn traditional first and then simplified, if you have the time. But if you know for a fact you're going to spend a lot of time on the mainland, and you only have time to learn one set of characters before you go, then you'll need simplified.
Hope this helps.
As far as characters go, I found traditional characters easier to learn. The radicals (the components that make up the character) can often be used to make up a little story that helps you remember what the character means. This isn't really possible with simplified. So, if I were you, I'd learn traditional first and then simplified, if you have the time. But if you know for a fact you're going to spend a lot of time on the mainland, and you only have time to learn one set of characters before you go, then you'll need simplified.
Hope this helps.
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