Ekaterina Kharitonova
@cherrywins · Creator of Sstories
Wow, just finished the first lesson! Really interesting and easy to learn. I haven't had any experience in chinese, now I know 5 characters! Cool! :) Does the app give information about chinese grammar in next lessons?
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Kevin Li
@kevin_3ck · CMO, Zizzle eLearning
@ekaterina_kharitonova Grammar information will be presented in small info boxes. It will come with one of the next updates!
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Joost Schuur
@joostschuur · Product manager, Playmob
@kevin_3ck @ekaterina_kharitonova I'm learning Chinese myself, and after too much time learning just the vocabulary on Memrise, I started to burn out a bit, until I combined it with grammar via HelloChinese. Obviously, reading is going to be important once you're in China or trying to make sense of written material, but I'd say the novelty factor of learning the characters will wear off pretty quickly if you don't get people speaking it. That's why I'm putting more time into learning to speak via pinyin than actually understanding all the characters right now.
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Ekaterina Kharitonova
@cherrywins · Creator of Sstories
@joostschuur thanks for the hint! Although I think that learning characters is good way to get people interested in chinese language, to make them want to learn more :)
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Kevin Li
@kevin_3ck · CMO, Zizzle eLearning
@joostschuur @ekaterina_kharitonova I agree with you and thanks for your feedback!
But learning to actually read Chinese gives you the possibility to really learn Chinese for yourself without being dependent on other people. You can just open your book and start learning.
Also learning Chinese characters benefits your speaking too, especially with a language like Chinese were things sound the same, but have different meanings.
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