Re: Learning Chinese in Australasia

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From: Barry Phease
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00

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>>>>> On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:50:39 +1200, Peter Zohrab <zohrab_p@actrix.gen.nz> said:
[Lots of interesting stuff]

It seems that I can agree with Peter on matters of Linguistics.

The only point of disagreement I would say is that there is some value in
teaching characters evfen at the beginning.  When I was learning Chinese I
found it easier to learn vocabulary if I at least encountered the character
at the beginning.  It was easier to get a feeling for the difference in
meaning of words that sound the same.

--

Barry Phease       |   All I know, I owe to my ignorance

BarryP@otago.ac.nz

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From: barryp@otago.ac.nz (Barry Phease)
Subject: Re: Learning Chinese in Australasia
Date: 1996/07/04
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