Traditional, the characters are so much easier to remember compare to the weird looking Simplifieds. God I so hated Simplified back in high school! it was great they had both on the provincial, whenever I can't remember a word I would just go look on the Traditional side haha

30 million people in Taiwan and HK
1,300 million people in China

2,287 Simplified characters
40,000 characters in a Chinese dictionary

seriously it sounds like i'm hating = = but simplified chinese doesn't make sense (that is ... the characters that are affected) i grew up learning traditional and now it allow me to read both

that being said ... either way it's gonna be hard ~ chinese is just a tough language ...

traditional will always be > simplified in my opinion
but depends where and how you are planning on using chinese
maybe simplified might be a better idea for you

Traditional. Easy to learn simplified from traditional.

Just like speaking Cantonese. Ppl who speak cantonese can speak mandarin fluently. But ppl who speak mandarin can seldom speak cantonese without any accents

u will be surprise how many kids does not know how to write Chinese nowadays ..it is because they type so much on computer ....

+1

I can barely write anymore

QFT!!!!!

My Cantonese sucks shit lol :lol!

I learned Traditional as a kid.
Of course.. I didn't retain any of it since I never really wrote/read Chinese as a kid. I can hear and speak it (Cantonese) properly though. I can even understand Toi Shan and Sun Wui dialects.
Other than numbers, my name, and random words.. I can't read or write it worth shit.

Mandarin is a different story though.
Canto-Mandarin I can understand, and speak a bit.
Normal Mandarin, same.
Northerner Mandarin.. you guys make my ears bleed.

You can tell when it's Canto-Mandarin because when we speak Mandarin, we're not as loud, we speak slower, and we actually enunciate.

Not true at all. It varies from person to person.

Plenty of examples of canto ppl who sound like shit speaking mando, as well as mando people who speak canto very well without much accent.

simplified is easier to learn and more commonly used if you go by shear numbers

but if you learn simplified you'll have a harder time reading traditional then if you learn traditional first...

my simplified is good but i cant fucking read a lot of traditional, and its frustrating... but only cuz i live in vancouver with lots of hongers and twangers

and how does simplified not make sense? it doesnt matter if it does or doesn't make sense compared to traditional its not like english where you can sound words out
sure you can peice together words with less difficulty in traditional but it doesn't even make a difference when you're trying to learn / read

if you don't know what a charracter is, or can't write it... you won't magically know how because you can peice parts together more easily

learning to read/write chinese is based on your ability to memorize and remember images, it differs and IMO is a lot harder than the english written language where you can use spelling / syntax / phonetics to help you write

if you're reading a sentence in chinese sometimes you're fucked and won't know what the sentence says if you don't recognize one or two characters

no1 uses traditional anymore, only taiwan, and its a pain in the ass to learn, simplified is a lot easier also when your typing and shit.....go for simplified cause in the end, it all speaks and sounds the same

you forgot hong kong

HK uses mix lang (english + trad chi + simp chi)

EX: "At the end 我们都得到了幸福 LA"

IMO, go traditional. Simplified Chinese can't define something properly.

Try writing/typing the following in Simplified:
我愛乾妹... means I love god-sister

http://p7.p.pixnet.net/albums/userpi...08795b865b.jpg

Love is not the same without "heart".

That is true. I grew up learning traditional during chinese school. I only recognize the one on the right.