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Originally Posted by kirakira
I suspect it's because it's more akin to learning Latin, i.e. not very useful. And for Japanese people who really want to learn Chinese, learning the Classical version absolutely does not help them communicate with people in China so they just go straight to the point and take modern Chinese instead.
Modern Chinese has more 当て字 than Japanese and half the characters used are used just to express sound, not meaning, bit like kana. For languages like Korean and Japanese that uses Kanji purely to express meaning, it will totally confuse them.
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some might say that classical chinese is useless, but i just think that the whole literature subject is equally useless. :P
why take literature when you could take english?
anyways, the kids that took chinese literature in my school at that time were all girls... i guess boys don't like subjects that has no practical use
