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Do I Need To Learn Chinese Characters?

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ID: 2564 Intermediate
When you first started learning Chinese, did you begin learning characters right away? In today’s lesson you will find that learning characters is the key to learning Chinese language and how learning just a few will improve your studies drastically.
Jenny Zhu,Ryan
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
录音 lùyīn recording (audio)
复习 fùxí to review
进步 jìnbù to progress
目标 mùbiāo goal
迈克你在听音乐吗
màikè 迈克nǐ 你zài 在tīng 听yīnyuè 音乐ma 吗
Mike, are you listening to music?
中文我在听录音复习呢
Zhōngwén 中文wǒ 我zài 在tīng 听lùyīn 录音fùxí 复习ne 呢
Chinese. I’m actually revising by listening to a recording.
你学汉字了吗
nǐ 你xué 学hànzì 汉字le 了ma 吗
Have you learnt Chinese characters yet?
没有所以我有更多的时间练习听和说进步可快了
méiyǒu 没有suǒyǐ 所以wǒ 我yǒu 有gèngduō 更多de 的shíjiān 时间liànxí 练习tīng 听hé 和shuō 说jìnbù 进步kě 可kuài 快le 了
No. That’s why I have even more time to practice listening and speaking. I’m improving really quickly.
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