2014年11月20日星期四

Chinese Character Writing: The Most Difficult Characters



If you are a Chinese learner, what is your biggest problem during your Chinese language learning? Maybe you will say the Chinese Pinyin, the Chinese pronunciation, or the intonation and tone of Chinese. Actually, these are all the difficult points for Chinese learners. However, if you have successfully mastered the basic pronunciation of Chinese, you will find a even more troublesome part is coming to you. That is the Chinese character writing.
According to survey about Chinese learning, we have got to know what characters are the most difficult ones to those overseas students, who are learning mandarin in Chinese schools now. In this terms, the Beijing Language and Culture College has made great advancement in the wrong characters identifying program and pointed out that these wrong Chinese characters have include all the mistakes that overseas students made in their composes writing. The first twelve characters are the following:
(wo3)”, “(zhe4)”, “(xue2)”, “(yi3)”, “(bu4)”, “(jue2),”, “(bi3)”, “(yi4)”, “(hai2)”, “(guo4)”, “(jia1)” and “(xiang3)”.
They refer to “I”, “this”, “learn”, “by”, “no”, “think”, “than”, “meaning”, “still”, “pass”, “home”, and “imagine” accordingly.
At the first sight, these characters do not seem to be that hard to write. To be honest, I can tell you these words are always learned in Chinese primary schools. That is to say they are the Chinese characters for kids. However, they are indeed difficult for foreigners. Because Chinese characters do not belong to the Latin letters system, how to write each stroke, how to place these strokes in order, or how many strokes the character has are the problems in their Chinese learning.
“I always mistake the character “(yi3)” with “(ji3), and “(shi4)” with “(tu3)” . They are too similar. It is really a tough thing to learn Chinese character well.” A overseas student from Canada said. 

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