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简体字与繁体字
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Brief Lesson Summaries
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Our lessons contain natural communication in Chinese in video and audio format. We have have lessons focused on video or a podcast format and our lessons have transcripts of Lesson Dialogues, Important Vocabulary, Expanded Materials for a deep dive into the lesson topic and Exercises focused on testing your retention.
Detailed Vocabulary
Each lesson has it's unique vocabulary and will provide you with definitions and recordings so you can practice the pronunciation. You will also be able to grasp the core material of a lesson at a glance. Here we're showing you the Simplified Chinese version.
SIMPLIFIED
PINYIN
ENGLISH
嚷
rǎng
to shout
简化
jiǎnhuà
simplification
甲骨文
jiǎgǔwén
bone carving
金文
jīnwén
bronze inscriptions
哎真头疼都是简体字
āi 哎zhēn 真tóu téng 头疼dōu 都shì 是jiǎntǐzì 简体字
Oh, what a headache. It's all in simplified characters.
不会吧看繁体字才晕
bùhuì 不会ba 吧kàn 看fántǐzì 繁体字cái 才yūn 晕
No way! Read traditional characters and then you'll know what a headache is.
There are also people on the mainland who say we should get back to traditional characters. But simplified characters are convenient, easy to remember and to write. Apparently they did a lot to reduce illiteracy. And furthermore, Chinese characters have been being simplified for thousands of years. From oracle bones and bronze inscriptions to seal script, and then again to the Han script and regular script-- the general trend is from complexity to simplicity.
Natural Dialogues
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