Nobody tell Hudson about tones
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This is pretty much my position. I think introducing characters at the outset takes crucial attention and energy away from the language-learning part of language learning, and am convinced that being Pinyin-only for the first year would produce much, much better results.
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It's not that tones, vocabulary, and grammar aren't difficult for learners -- just the opposite: they're more than enough to focus on already, and dumping the writing system on top of it does nobody any favors.
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I disagree. Personally I find learning characters the EASY part of Chinese. I read far better than I speak. It's expressing myself with ease (and good tones) in spoken conversation that I find most difficult.
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Speaking is always the hardest thing to do well. I don't think anyone argues it's hard to learn Chinese characters, it's just a huge time sink. It's a two thousand year old game of Go Fish that spun out of control.
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