One underappreciated benefit of this highly significant move is that students will be able to learn regular Chinese script, which is much more useful in the long run, and not be limited to the PRC’s simplified script. Great piece by @amyyqinhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/world/asia/harvard-chinese-program-taiwan.html?referringSource=articleShare …
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Replying to @iandenisjohnson @amyyqin
The 繁体/簡體 thing has always seemed pretty overblown to me: the characters are mostly not that different, the differences are mostly pretty regular, and any serious student is going to have to acquire at least a passive literacy in both.
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“Is going to have to” is the key - but it doesn’t mean they actually will. Agree it’s not that hard to learn 繁體字 relative to the difficulty of the whole enterprise, but the fact is that lots of people these days don’t learn.
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Sure, but AFAIK Harvard has always taught both character sets.
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I think the correct solution is to make students handwrite "combo" characters that have traditional on the left and simplified on the right.
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