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danielboy 發表於 13-6-3 12:09
My child goes to Renaissance College where traditional Chinese is taught.

Thank you so much for your kind response. Tough I am a bit curious for ESF teach simplified Chinese. So how do kids taught in simplified Chinese adapt to traditional Chinese? I just guess some ESF kids will go to RC. Please correct me if I am wrong.

GentooMama

I have already apologized for missing the thread in April which was the only thread asking about traditional Chinese in this year. The other one was last May. Is this topic really so repetitive? Is the topic repeating just once in a year so annoying? Sure I honor the freedom of speech and how different jm react and feel. It is just that I don't hope to see jm wasting your precious time on the discussion on whether this topic is so annoyingly repetitive because it won't help any jm at all. Or else it would become those thread please pm me..... So if you hate this thread, please simply ignore it. Not because of me. It is for the benefit of others.
Also I truly appreciate those who are so generous to share your experiences in the Chinese teaching medium again. Hope this topic won't bother anyone anymore.

sayubemine

as i know, rc & cais use traditional one.

danielboy

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Yes some of them do have difficulties adapting to a traditional Chinese environment like Hong Kong.  My nephew and niece go to an ESF school where simplified Chinese is taught.  They do have problems reading Chinese characters that we see everyday in the streets, road signs, menus in restaurants, etc. I personally find it very annoying if I can't read Chinese characters in Hong Kong but they don't see it as a problem.  It's also harder to support the kids in Chinese learning because books/supplementary exercises written in simplified Chinese are very limited.

GentooMama

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Yes some of them do have difficulties adapting to a traditional Chinese envi ...

Yes and so I really hope my kid can be accepted in an IS which teach traditional Chinese. It looks very strange from foreigner's eyes that Chinese can't read those Chineae characters in historical building. I had friends from mainland asking me what was written in temple during traveling because they are in traditional characters . It is a pity

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Hi GentooMama
May i share my view and experience. I knew quite some kids studying in IS which teach in simplified chinese. They have no problem in reading traditional chinese on street , resturant menu and even simple comic at all. As we have chance to see TC everywhere everyday in daily life unless the family does purpose limite the living and social circle for the kids. Second i always think .... Except hk, taiwan and macau, all over the world is adopting simplified chinese. I think SC is the trend anx at least follow the majority , unless any reason  kid must work in hk/tw/ macau. Further, even work in hk , last time i need to write chinese letter was a few years ago .  that why i think we should not limite our kid path by our own view or thinking path as a local .

md23

GentooMama 發表於 13-6-4 10:41
Yes and so I really hope my kid can be accepted in an IS which teach traditional Chinese. It looks v ...

China is a country, HK is a city. There are way many people using simplified Chinese than Traditional Chinese. Simplified Chinese is much more useful in mainland China and overseas (more foreigners learn simplified Chinese if they do wanna pick up Chinese), traditional Chinese is more useful in HK and Taiwan. If you are sure you kid is definitely staying in these two places, go for it.

GentooMama

The reasons why I prefer traditional Chinese, besides the reason that I have stated above, if you know traditional Chinese, you basically can read simplified Chinese without any problem but not vice versa. So I view it as an added value. Moreover, the beauty in Chinese is in traditional Chinese but not in simplified Chinese because the traditional Chinese is built on symbolic meaning and I hope my kid can appreciate global culture and also our own culture and languages. Sure in Hong Kong, unlike in mainland, kids would have more exposure in traditional Chinese and therefore probably can recognize the traditional Chinese character more easily than kids growing up in mainland. It is just always easier to learn simplified Chinese if you have acquired traditional Chinese but not the other way round. We are local family. So she may study abroad but still quite a high chance to work in HK. I don't know what her job maybe. If she wants to work in occupation which requires writing or reading large amount traditional Chinese, I just don't want to see her being restricted because of knowing just simplified Chinese. We always just want to give the best combination to kids if possible.