Just curious to see who is actively studying Chinese here or speaks Chinese to some level (whether through study, as a native language, or a heritage language). This community seems a bit inactive at the moment so I am wondering about who might be lurking and have an interest even though the posting rate is a bit slow.

Describing your level/experience with Chinese and info about what language variety, writing system and such you are studying/speak is welcome.

  • Soviet SnakeM
    2·
    2 years ago

    What do you mean by having the sound built in?

    I mean the idea is that you learn the hanzi and then start working on grammar and phonetics after that, which is kind of how natives learn, since they are first exposed to the grammar and phonetics, and then they have to memorize the hanzi.

    • 33rdJanuaryM
      4·
      2 years ago

      See my post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/204590

      But long story short, most characters are like 灌, or 霞, or 请, and are made up of two halves: one half contains the meaning (氵〔水〕、雨、讠〔言〕respectively), and the other half actually tells you how it’s pronounced (although sometimes imperfectly), that being 雚 guan4 for 灌 guan4, 叚 jia3/4 for 霞 xia2, and 青 qing1 for 请 qing3

      • Soviet SnakeM
        2·
        2 years ago

        I will have to take a look then, thanks for the information!