Simplified Chinese characters

Published October 15, 2010 | By Bman

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also because of the availability of inexpensive decent quality textbooks printed in mainland China. Teachers of international students often recommend learning both systems.

In the United Kingdom, universities mainly teach Chinese at undergraduate level using the simplified characters coupled with pinyin. However, they will require the students to learn and be able to recognise the traditional forms by the last year of the course, by which time the students will have completed a year’s study either in China or Taiwan.

In Australia and New Zealand, schools, universities and TAFEs use predominantly simplified characters.

Russia and most East European nations are traditionally oriented on the education of the PRC’s system for teaching Chinese, uses simplified characters but exposes the learners to both systems.

In South Korea, universities have used

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