Simply Chinese: Recipes from a Chinese Home Kitchen

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Xing, Janet Zhiqun (2006). Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language: A Pedagogical Grammar. Hong Kong University Press. p.105. ISBN 978-962-209-763-6. For programs in teaching and learning Chinese as FL outside China, the simplified version has gradually gained ground and become the first choice because of student demand… In Indonesia, Chinese is not an official language. However, the country is also home to a sizable ethnic-Chinese community, and similarly to Malaysia, ethnic-Chinese students typically receive their education in Chinese-language schools that almost exclusively use simplified characters. Traditional characters are seldom used, typically only for stylistic purposes.

Accepting the fact that Chinese characters are an inseparable part of the language, printing out your worksheets and opening a parallel textbook are your first steps to mastering Chinese characters. Pinyin will help you a lot when learning Chinese because it means you can start reading without learning Chinese characters. The 6 Types of Chinese Characters

It is common for Hong Kongers to learn traditional Chinese characters in school, as well as some simplified characters incidentally, usually by consuming media produced on the mainland. For use on computers, however, people tend to type Chinese characters using an IME with a traditional character set, such as Big5. In Hong Kong, as well as elsewhere, it is common for people to use both sets, due to the ease of conversion between the two sets. [ clarification needed] Taiwan [ edit ] These characters were simplified as left-side radicals but maintained the traditional form when used as other character components or standalone characters. Traditional Chinese supporters sometimes refer to simplified Chinese as 殘體字 ( cántǐzì – 'crippled characters'). If you wore your hair down, you were a rebel or dissenter. If you were being punished, your hair would be cut, or you would be shaved bald. Notice the top two components of the traditional character for hair, 髮:

But more often than not, you’ll just have to memorize them, as over time, and through simplification, most of them look different to how they originally did. Cut around the edges, leaving a 1cm (½in) gap between the outer edge and the flesh (make sure you don't slice straight through the skin). Cut down either side of the core and remove it, then carefully score the flesh in a grid pattern so you can extract cubes of the pineapple with a spoon or knife. Then finely dice. Simplified Chinese is used by both Mandarin and Cantonese speakers living in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Most Cantonese speakers in China live in the 广东 / 廣東 (guǎng dōng) province. Because they’re part of Mainland China, they use the simplified writing system. Traditional characters looked (and often still look) like the “idea” behind them – the meaning; hence “ideograms”. English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–VietnameseAuthor Liu Shahe was an outspoken critic of the simplification of Chinese characters. He wrote a dedicated column entitled "Simplified Characters are Unreasonable" (简化字不讲理) in the Chinese edition of the Financial Times. [27] FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.

Digital learning resources are convenient for a variety of reasons, and the ease of changing between traditional and simplified Chinese is definitely one of them. The Differences Between Simplified and Traditional Chinese In South Korea, universities have used predominantly simplified characters since 1990s. In high school, Chinese is one of the selective subjects. By the regulation of the national curricula standards, MPS I and traditional characters had been originally used before (since the 1940s), but by the change of regulation, pinyin and simplified characters have been used to pupils who enter the school in 1996 or later. Therefore, MPS I and traditional characters disappeared after 1998 in South Korean high school Chinese curriculum. The Series One List of Variant Characters reduces the number of total standard characters. First, amongst each set of variant characters sharing identical pronunciation and meaning, one character (usually the simplest in form) is elevated to the standard character set, and the rest are made obsolete. Then amongst the chosen variants, those that appear in the "Complete List of Simplified Characters" are also simplified in character structure accordingly. Some examples follow:

Shih, Hsiu-chuan (14 December 2010). "Premier Respects 'Choice' on Spelling". Taipei Times . Retrieved 8 January 2015. Take a look at 发 / 髮. The simplified character has five strokes, while the traditional character has 15. Simply Chinese is a sumptuous collection of classic and modern Chinese home-style recipes that can be made, with ease, in your own home kitchens. Conversion from simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese happens automatically when the input mode changes from traditional to simplified Chinese.

They’ve become an inseparable part of Chinese language and culture, but they can seem confusing and hard to learn for a foreign learner, at first.Chia, Shih Yar 谢世涯. Xīnjiāpō yǔ zhōngguó tiáozhěng jiǎntǐzì de píng zhì 新加坡与中国调整简体字的评骘[ A Comparative Study of the Revision of Simplified Chinese Characters Proposed by Singapore and China]. Paper presented at The International Conference on Culture of Chinese Character. Convened by Beijing Normal University and Liaoning People Publishing House. Dandong, Liaoning, China. 9-11 Nov 1998 (in Chinese) – via huayuqiao.org. The character 羽 (yǔ) — feather/wings is the top component of the traditional character 習, but 習 was further simplified to 习, which was never considered an individual component before the simplification process. All the recipes can be made by people of all cooking abilities. Cooking should be fun and sharing the results with friends and family makes it all worthwhile," she insists.