▲ 633 ▼ China Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World's Scientific Superpower (futurism.com) submitted 7 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/science@lemmy.world 143 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 points 7 months ago (6 children) This is part of why I am (slowly) learning Mandarin. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (4 children) I'm so tempted to, tbh. I wonder how hard it'd be to go from joyou Kanji to hanzi. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago (3 children) I can read probably 1000ish kanji (maybe more), and some are super easy. Others are less so 漢 -> 汉 is .... what? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) I have a feeling I'll have to learn traditional and simplified at the same time and that feels a bit daunting. 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) AFAIK, if you're targeting mainland China and don't need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* Oh yeah, definitely, although I'm more concerned about committing them to memory, since the simplified characters lose some meaning and you're expected to make up for it. I guess I've forgotten the meaning of simple kanji like 免 one too many times. Thanks for the link, though! I'll check it out. permalink fedilink source parent [–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago Wo ye xuexi hanyu, yi dian dian permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (4 children) I'm so tempted to, tbh. I wonder how hard it'd be to go from joyou Kanji to hanzi. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago (3 children) I can read probably 1000ish kanji (maybe more), and some are super easy. Others are less so 漢 -> 汉 is .... what? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) I have a feeling I'll have to learn traditional and simplified at the same time and that feels a bit daunting. 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) AFAIK, if you're targeting mainland China and don't need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* Oh yeah, definitely, although I'm more concerned about committing them to memory, since the simplified characters lose some meaning and you're expected to make up for it. I guess I've forgotten the meaning of simple kanji like 免 one too many times. Thanks for the link, though! I'll check it out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago (3 children) I can read probably 1000ish kanji (maybe more), and some are super easy. Others are less so 漢 -> 汉 is .... what? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) I have a feeling I'll have to learn traditional and simplified at the same time and that feels a bit daunting. 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) AFAIK, if you're targeting mainland China and don't need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* Oh yeah, definitely, although I'm more concerned about committing them to memory, since the simplified characters lose some meaning and you're expected to make up for it. I guess I've forgotten the meaning of simple kanji like 免 one too many times. Thanks for the link, though! I'll check it out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) I have a feeling I'll have to learn traditional and simplified at the same time and that feels a bit daunting. 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) AFAIK, if you're targeting mainland China and don't need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* Oh yeah, definitely, although I'm more concerned about committing them to memory, since the simplified characters lose some meaning and you're expected to make up for it. I guess I've forgotten the meaning of simple kanji like 免 one too many times. Thanks for the link, though! I'll check it out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) AFAIK, if you're targeting mainland China and don't need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* Oh yeah, definitely, although I'm more concerned about committing them to memory, since the simplified characters lose some meaning and you're expected to make up for it. I guess I've forgotten the meaning of simple kanji like 免 one too many times. Thanks for the link, though! I'll check it out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* Oh yeah, definitely, although I'm more concerned about committing them to memory, since the simplified characters lose some meaning and you're expected to make up for it. I guess I've forgotten the meaning of simple kanji like 免 one too many times. Thanks for the link, though! I'll check it out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago Wo ye xuexi hanyu, yi dian dian permalink fedilink source parent