Thursday, September 9, 2010

I HATE Chinese

The title explains all.  I am dedicating this post to express my hatred of the Chinese language.  Tomorrow's post will be of my hatred of Chinese school, unless something else pops up.


So... why do I hate the language?  Well, to start out, it is extremely complicated.  Unlike English, you can't read a word that you never learned.  For English, all you have to do is to sound out the word according to the arrangement of letters.  Chinese words are just a bunch of strokes that make up an artistic blob.  It is impossible to know what the word is without taking a minute to memorize it and keep it in your head.  It is the same with writing words.  If you know what the word sounds like, you have to memorize the artistic blob before you can write it.  In English, all you have to do is think what the sounds spell out.  Another reason I despise the Chinese language is that it takes extremely long to write out a word.  "Hello" would be 你好in Chinese.  it just take so very long to write out something.  The final reason I dislike the Chinese language is that it takes a long time to type out.  To type out a character in Chinese, you first have to type out the pronunciation, then click on the word.  There are a lot of words for each pronunciation, so it also takes a while to find the word you are looking for.  In the technological age where many things are done on the computer, Chinese just doesn't fit in.

2 comments:

  1. Do you hate Chinese, or do you hate the process of learning Chinese? Those are two very different things. One could say the English language is a very flawed piece of machinery as well.

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  2. Actually, you don't have to click on it, just keep typing and it will be smart enough to change it ;)

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