I was back in Shanghai for 3 weeks visiting relatives, and this has re-sparked an interest inside me to learn Chinese. I'm Chinese and my parents are Chinese, and we speak Chinese in our house, so the speaking is no problem; it comes quite naturally, even if everyone else says my accent is a bit strange.
The problem is the reading and writing. When I was younger my parents endeavoured to teach me Chinese, and I got to the equivalent of 2nd/3rd grade before we gave up. My character recognition has gotten a lot better in the 3 weeks I was in China, but it's still pretty poor; shop signs and stuff were fine because they were short and I could guess the gist of what they meant from the context, but a newspaper is completely beyond me. The problem is my parents threw/gave away those old Chinese textbooks years ago, so now that I want to learn again, I have no idea where to get resources from.
I've tried on the internet, but it seems that spoken Chinese is emphasized far more than written. As I said before, spoken Chinese is quite natural to me, even if I have a bit of a limited vocabulary, and I want to focus on learning to recognize and write a lot more. If anyone has any suggestions for something that focuses on reading/writing, that would be great.
The problem is the reading and writing. When I was younger my parents endeavoured to teach me Chinese, and I got to the equivalent of 2nd/3rd grade before we gave up. My character recognition has gotten a lot better in the 3 weeks I was in China, but it's still pretty poor; shop signs and stuff were fine because they were short and I could guess the gist of what they meant from the context, but a newspaper is completely beyond me. The problem is my parents threw/gave away those old Chinese textbooks years ago, so now that I want to learn again, I have no idea where to get resources from.
I've tried on the internet, but it seems that spoken Chinese is emphasized far more than written. As I said before, spoken Chinese is quite natural to me, even if I have a bit of a limited vocabulary, and I want to focus on learning to recognize and write a lot more. If anyone has any suggestions for something that focuses on reading/writing, that would be great.
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