I was wondering how to native speakers of Chinese test their 漢字 knowledge. In Japan, they have this test called the 日本漢字能力検定 which is divided into 12 levels, 1 being the highest. This test isn't compulsary, but it does help in school entrance exams and looks good on your resume. I'm taking the test next February just to give it a go... Most Japanese people only need to pass level 2 (1945 characters - same as Level 1 of the JLPT). I think Korea has a similar test...한국한자능력검정 (韓國漢字能力檢定)
So as I was saying, I was wondering if there is a similar test in Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China or Singapore...
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Cody is a 19 year old male that lives in America and is currently studying Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), and Spanish. His main focus is Korean but he is also interested in Japanese and thinks Chinese sounds cool. Spanish is there because it is required for his college and he kind of likes it (a little bit). In his spare time, he likes to listen to music, watch movies, play video games, practice his languages (duh~), and Jog.
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Theresa is a 20 year old female who lives in Singapore and is currently taking Korean as a third language, her first being English and second being Mandarin. She took Korean in 2005 and gradually fell in love with the language. Some of her favourite pasttimes would be reading novels, shopping and more shopping.
Hyunwoo(현우)
Hyunwoo is a 27 year old male who lives in Korea and speaks Korean as his mother language. He's currently studying English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian, German, and Italian. He enjoys breakdancing in his free time (and always tries to make more and more free time for this!) and loves meeting new people and communicating in the languages he's studying.
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Ed is a self-described eccentric graduate student of linguistics from California. He currently focuses on Balinese and Indonesian, but has also studied the following: French, Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, and Abou Dida (in his field methods class). He is also an accomplished performer of Balinese and Central Javanese gamelan music and dance. On top of that, he's supposedly a really good amateur chef...
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in singapore, we take Chinese language along with all the rest of the subjects we take in school. we don't really have a test for the chinese characters .. we just learn them like that. actually there are still quite a number of words i don't know. haha.
Oh ok, so it's just part of the curriculum...
How many characters are people officially required to learn in school? Is there a number?
not really .. we use textbooks that teach us new vocab through stories. usually about 20 new words per chapter.
oh wait, are you learning the traditional chinese characters? in singapore, we learn the simplified characters. back in my parents' times they learnt the traditional characters though. that's difficult i'd say.
I try to learn both, I used mainland China textbooks when I began studying Chinese, but I also use textbooks printed in Taiwan. My personal motto though is "read traditional, write simplified."
yep, i learn simplified but i can read traditional characters as well. probably because of the taiwanese shows shown in singapore. haha.
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