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Q: How good is your written chinese?

my level is qq level. I can chat but if I would have to translate things into chinese I'd need at least a chinese guy to doublecheck it...

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It's very poor I only know a few characters.....my writing is horrible..

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Your comments suck too.

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Not that good.

I am always forgetting a stroke or a line or a few dots....

GuilinRaf:

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I am starting Chinese lessons this week. Early this morning, we had a placement exam. One of the sections had 20 words in pinyin and we had to write the Chinese character.

I ONLY SCORED 2 OUT OF 20!!!!cool

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pinyin sucks, I never like it, visually. I think it looks much more better and sophisticate the Wade-Giles../.

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GuilinRaf:

To be honest, I think any Romanization of Chinese will fail. The characters really ARE necessary for when it comes to clarity.

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my written English looks like Chinese chicken scratching does this count?

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Much, much better than my spoken Chinese. If I try to speak Chinese, it's... laughable. Only my wife understands it 100% of the run. Otherwise it's a hit or miss.

 

Some days everyone understands my Chinese, and they're surprised we can communicate. On other days, they can't understand anything and I keep getting "ting bu dong!"

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Just about good enough to communicate on QQ, Skype, MSN etc., send text messages or write simple documents. I can read Chinese characters well enough to get through normal daily activities like reading Chinese websites, reading promotional material, menus in restaurants etc.

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I'm about the same. My reading is quite good and I could comfortably translate from Chinese to English but would struggle to make it sound native the other way round. Ive also forgotten how to write a lot of Chinese characters by hand now because I only ever use my phone or keyboard to write Chinese characters. That's a real shame.

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got exactly the same problem. I met just one guy, an american living in BJ who was able to write a book in chinese...he told me when he graduated he had to write a 200 pages long essay, in chinese.

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coffaholic:

Wow, good for him! Those kind of foreigners in China put me to shame. I've been too lazy to reach that level but it's obviously not impossible to get there. Oh well.

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well, in my opinion studying chinese is not enough to handle written chinese. You need to spend some years on classical chinese (文言文) as well...so is something that takes years. I was studying classical chinese, but at that time I didnt like it so much and never really put any effort in it that was more to simple pass the exsams..

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Even Chinese people don't write by hand that often nowadays. 

My written Chinese is 还可以,since I always type using 拼音.

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pretty good, love chinese brush calligraphy and been practicing since primary school.

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Like learning the language, there's really no point. It's of no use outside China, and there are enough English speakers in China to get by.

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I can write "haha" in Chinese! No, seriously, I recognize more than a few hanzi, but I'm no good at writing sentences.

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