I grew up learning Traditional Chinese, and I can only read a bit of chinese, and that's traditional. Simplified Chinese can be so confusing sometimes ><

Ditto on that.

what is the difference? is it like different dialect

I like traditional better even though it is harder to learn but its easier to understand though. Kind of confusing but when if you take chinese classes you'll see. Simplified Chinese is really uselss outside of china which is why its not really perferred..

yeh i've learned traditional all my life... i'm pretty hopeless.. lernt chinese foh like yrz and i still cant read much... but i gess traditional looks prettier ^-^.. though my teacher on random days would right the simplified versions next to the traditional versions so we can kind ov get the drift of how to read simplified if we come across it =] and my computer types up simplified version instead of traditional >.<

i prefer traditional too ^^ it's more elegant and special =]

nope, just different ways of writing it =D

me too x_x my teacher for some reason loves giving us tests in simplified, which i CAN'T READ!!! =_=
you could change the typing thing so that it types in traditional, that's how mines became traditional. xD

This post was last modified: 01-30-2007 01:05 PM by dreamyy.

people in china use simplify more, but i think that traditional chinese looks better and is more interesting for people to use.

A large majority of Chinese people in China use simplified Chinese. I suppose more and more people are using simplified chinese simply because it is easier to write and remember. However, i think traditional characters are better, they also look better than simplified.

yea u right...its sad that my parents uses simplyfi chinese and my cantonese school course is traditional...thats just make it harder for me to undertsand when my parents trying to teach my the text..

sorry to ask...but what's the difference....???