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Poll #4448

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Do you study traditional characters, or simplified characters?

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Traditional.
8 (57.1%)

Simplified.
5 (35.7%)

Both.
1 (7.1%)

Neither.
0 (0.0%)

Feel free to explain yourself in the comments! :D

Comments

[supermouse]

The particular site I am learning from teaches simplified.

[highways]

I think there are more resources on the 'Net overall that teach simplified. Which, you know, makes sense. I'm sort of surprised that traditional learners outnumber the simplified ones, actually!

[kutsuwamushi]

I want to learn traditional characters, mainly because the traditional characters are what hanja (Korean) and kanji (Japanese) are based on. It's also apparently easier to recognize simplified if you already know traditional, rather than vice versa.

But I'm finding this frustrating because most material is simplified. Maybe learning both would be best, but that requires a lot of discipline!

[highways]

I share your frustration even though it makes sense, since there are way more simplified readers in the world than traditional readers. I don't know if this will help you, but there are browser extensions you can get that will flip webpages between simplified and traditional characters, if you're using mostly Internet resources.

Most people I know can ... sort of read both, but yeah, it's way too much work to learn both systems. Maybe someday I'll have to learn simplified, but I'll put that off as long as possible...

[azuire]

I learnt traditional in school and have difficulty reading simplified :/ Exacerbated since I started learning Japanese.

[highways]

Japanese trips me up with its random forays into simplified characters, though. I still have a hard time writing 氣, I've gotten marked down for writing it in simplified on assignments. :/