hi ! I'm starting to learn chinese and have gotten the radicals down, but i'm very conflicted on whether to learn simplified or traditional script. I know that traditional conveys more culture and meaning, but more learning resources are in simplified cn and I'm conflicted on what one I should choose.
Be like me and just don't choose 😂 I do both, intermittently.
It's definitely way easier to do simplified because there are more resources for it. Personally, I find myself mostly using simplified since most of the people who text me on a regular basis are Chinese and use simplified. On trends when I talk more with Taiwanese people, I find my traditional recognition improves.
I hear the "traditional has more culture and meaning" a lot but tbh I don't really see that so much? 🤣 Maybe controversial opinion but, both the changes made for simplified and original traditional characters tend to have good rules and hints toward meaning and pronunciation using components/radicals, and both can show a lot about culture.
I would say get a group of language exchange partners (once you feel comfortable) and see which one you need/use more. In my experience, the "use it or lose it" is SO REAL.
Personally I like that I am familiar with both. I am obviously more familiar with simplified because there are more resources and it's easier to recognize, but I see worth in knowing both. I don't think learning one made it harder to learn the other, either. You can always change your mind down the road.
Using 100% of my brain capacity to write a letter to my brother's girlfriend using traditional characters
Only 5% is for the actual writing part, the other 95% is for stopping myself from automatically writing the simplified forms
(Wrote "会" instead of "會" three times in a row before I finally wrote the one I wanted... Sorry your letter will be ugly and full of crossed out characters friend >-<)
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