Directly Teaching Classical Chinese For Foreigner
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Why Classical Chinese Language?
"Four-happiness Meatballs"四喜丸子 plus calligraphy书法 of course is not equal to Chinese Culture. Even for Mandarin in modern Chinese life! In fact Mandarin try to use "words" making a sentence, just like a Western language. But the true Chinese, it only use separated "character字", special image象 on everyone. That means a completely different understanding way for the world. (For Details ...)
For the wisdom has been involved in traditional Chinese Culture for more than five thousands years, that comes from the integrate harmony of Confucius, Taoism and Buddhism, you couldn't understand completely until you learn classical Chinese language. Most Easy, In Fact !Confucius is so deep, looks like a wall thousands meters high. Learn it by Mandarin, just like climb the wall, hard to get the top and paining on the way. But if you directly learn traditional classical Chinese by traditional way, it likes get the key of the door on the wall, easily goes inside.
Just for Chinese language ability catching, through Mandarin, it's same result by multiple efforts事倍功半. But through classical Chinese, it's same efforts for multiple results事半功倍. In fact you will naturally have your Mandarin when you are learning this true Chinese traditional language with traditional life activities. |
Confucius
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