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How many Chinese characters do I need to know to read a newspaper?
How many characters can a native read? Consider that a well educated native Chinese person knows approximately 8000 characters, but in order to read a newspaper, you only really need to know around 2000-3000 characters.
How many Chinese characters can I learn per day?
One year has 365 days, so 500/365 =1.36. If you want to learn 500 characters in a year, you can aim to learn 1 to 2 character a day to achieve this simple-seeming goal.
How long does it take to be fluent in Chinese?
It takes a learner with average aptitude only 15 weeks to reach level 2 for Spanish or French, but about 50 weeks to reach a similar level of the Chinese language. If you want to be fully fluent in Mandarin, you’d better plan to spend about 230 weeks, which is about 4 years.
How many characters do you need to know to read Mandarin?
Altogether there are over 50,000 characters, though a comprehensive modern dictionary will rarely list over 20,000 in use. An educated Chinese person will know about 8,000 characters, but you will only need about 2-3,000 to be able to read a newspaper.
What is the best way to learn Chinese online?
The 10 best free resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
- Anki.
- YouTube, YouKu, TuDou.
- Jukuu.
- Tatoeba.
- Free Chinese podcasts.
- MDBG.
- Chinese Forums.
- Chinese Language Stack Exchange.
How many characters do you need to learn Chinese characters?
Consider that a well educated native Chinese person knows approximately 8000 characters, but in order to read a newspaper, you only really need to know around 2000-3000 characters. Interestingly, an English native speaking adult should know around 20,000-35,000 words!
Do you need to know Chinese characters to read a newspaper?
However, to understand the meaning of an article, not only should you know the characters, but also the words, phrases, and grammar. So, to be able to read a newspaper, at least you have to build a decent Chinese vocabulary rather than just being able to recognize the characters.
How many pinyin do I need to learn Mandarin?
If you want to learn Mandarin (or Pu3 Tong1 Hua4), you have to master the four tones of the language. However, one pinyin usually represents many Chinese characters. For example, han4 can depict the Chinese characters for “sweet,” “drought,” “brave,” “Chinese,” etc.
How do you read a Chinese word in English?
For an English word, the Chinese translation (or the Chinese ‘word’) often consists two or more Chinese characters. You should use them together and read them from left to right.