tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post3994954588896915402..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Meritocracy in ChinaSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-27624636399010520442007-12-08T14:39:00.000-05:002007-12-08T14:39:00.000-05:00Joe, I would say from my own personal experience t...Joe, <BR/><BR/>I would say from my own personal experience that learning written Chinese requires more memorization than learning phonetic systems. Perhaps I was going at it the wrong way, but I think most native Chinese speakers/readers would agree with me.<BR/><BR/>I first learned the bo-po-mo-fo phonetic system (not pinyin, which is more common now) in Chinese school as a kid. When we started Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-45301229855069414482007-12-08T13:55:00.000-05:002007-12-08T13:55:00.000-05:00I don't know how widespread is the misconception t...I don't know how widespread is the misconception that the Chinese written language requires more memorization to master than, say, English. It's certainly fairly easy to learn reading Chinese, as the average kid who is taught it can manage it by the age of 4. This is because reading Chinese requires visual pattern matching, an almost innate skill, whereas reading English requires a mixture of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com