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n 06 20
08
What Neverbeens don’t know about China
Well, I’ve returned to my chilly Suzhou apartment after a three week refresher in the “real world” and am slowly getting back into the routine of expat life in China.
Though I still plan to post my wife Maggie’s impressions of Canada, that involves sorting photos and recollecting exactly what we did while away – time consuming endeavors. In the meantime, I thought I’d share some of the things I was somewhat surprised to find out people just don’t know about China.
- By and large people in China wear the same clothes as the rest of the world: This
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c 07 20
07
The Chinese Alphabet – it’s not THAT big
For as long as I’ve been in China I’ve been told, and have told others, that the reason the Chinese language is so impossibly difficult to learn is because of its alphabet of 50,000,000,000,000,000 characters, each strokingly more confusing than the last.
However, I think it’s time to set the record straight. Comparing the number of different Chinese characters to the 26 letters of the English alphabet is a gross misunderstanding of written Chinese.
Though it is true that written Chinese has in around 6,000 “active” characters, to even be considered “literate” in China you need to be able to…
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