simplified vs traditional Chinese

ChingMa

Dear parents.

Just ask for your opinons.

Will you consider Chinese written form when you choose a international school for your kids?

If yes, will you perfer simplified or traditional Chinese characters?

simplifed- more popular worldwide
traditional- local use , more practical

melisa

simplified Chinese characters

ahk019

ChingMa,

I prefer Traditional Chinese however, the teacher will be come from Taiwan and the accent is not as formal as those from Beijing.   Anyway, written chinese to be used will not be the major consideration when I use a school.

chapman媽

For me, I prefer traditional chinese as I think its easiler to learn simplied chinese after knowing the traditional chinese characteristic while its harder the other way round.

Sweetiebarney

Same for me too.

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由 chapman媽 於 2006-05-05 00:56:29

For me, I prefer traditional chinese as I think its easiler to learn simplied chinese after knowing the traditional chinese characteristic while its harder the other way round.

ChingMa

I personally prefer tranditional characters so that my kid can learn from the newspaper, prints and signs locally. Simplified form can be learned when she is older.

However, it seems there are more international schools teaching simplified characters than tranditional characters in HK....

ahk019

this morning I received a email with subj:

急件！ 反對聯合國二零零八年廢除繁體中文！請簽反對信！拯救中國文化

there is a url attached too (i.e.  http://www.gopetition.com/sign.php?currentregion=237&petid=8314

Usually, I seldom respond to any of these emails (I will treat them as kind of "chain letter").   However, any mom has comment on it?