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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What type of Chinese characters does YY emphasize?  There is my ignorance, I didn't know there was any other kind of character for Mandarin Chinese than traditional...  what other kind is there and what does YY teach?[/quote]

There's traditional characters, then there are simplified.  Mainland China uses simplified, whereas Taiwan, Hong Kong and most overseas communities use traditional characters.  About 2/3 of the characters are the same, traditional or simplified.  But the more complex traditional ones were "simplified" by Chairman Mao and his cohorts in ways which totally obliterate the original traditional character.  This is a problem for language learners.  Traditional characters are easier for foreigners to recognize because they are more distinct and the character itself holds clues to its meaning.  There's also a few traditional characters that were dropped altogether, resulting in one simplified character holding multiple meanings.  It is generally considered to be much easier to go from knowing traditional characters to simplified, than from simplified to traditional.

YY teaches simplified characters.  It is a great school, of course, but in my humble opinion they made a big mistake upon founding the school when they decided to eschew traditional characters.[/quote]

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