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Is it difficult to study Chinese?

As a Chinese language student, I will answer your questions about my personal experience and feelings, including what to study in Chinese language, how difficult it is to learn, future careers, and how to learn.

First of all, you have to be clear about what the Chinese Department is studying, and what kind of career paths are available after studying the Chinese Department. The full name of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature is the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, which is a large department, it is profound and all-encompassing.

What do you study in Chinese? Is it difficult? The content and emphasis of the Chinese department varies from college to college. At the undergraduate level, the basic content includes the history of ancient literature, the history of modern and contemporary literature, the history of foreign literature, ancient Chinese, modern Chinese, literary theory, comparative literature, and so on.

For most people, the history of literature as a basic knowledge is relatively simple, mainly to understand the state and development of Chinese literature in various periods, and then read a lot of famous writers and masterpieces. The very theoretical content such as literary theory, comparative literature, and ancient Chinese language is more difficult for most people, and it also requires strong logical analytical skills and comprehension.

So, the Chinese department is not that good .
Frankly speaking, no one can learn all the areas of the Chinese Department of proficiency, those who are in the Chinese Department of the tree to choose a branch of the development, as long as the study of a Chinese branch of the thoroughness of your very great.

What are the prospects for studying Chinese language? The most direct way out is to engage in academics, to become a scholar of a particular branch of the Chinese language, and to stay in colleges and universities for academic teaching and research. Of course, I believe that many people who study Chinese language there is a greater sentiment, that is, love of words love of literature, Chinese language students have a writer's dream, but unfortunately not many well-known writers from the Chinese language department. In addition, in the future you can engage in text-based jobs, such as editors, journalists, secretaries, clerks and other jobs.

Secondly, when you study Chinese language you have to figure out why you want to study this major and how to go about it. Is it a writer's dream, an academic dream, or are you interested in editing, publishing and other word work? Only by understanding this you will be able to pick the direction and focus of your study. As I said before, the scope of the Chinese Department is too large, and you need to focus on a certain branch of study according to your own needs.

How to study? For example, if you want to be a writer, then read a lot of famous authors, focus on writing practice, in addition to other specialized areas of the book, so that their knowledge of the storage of large, so that the writing of the time to have the goods. If you want to engage in academic research, choose a field, such as the study of literary history, language and writing research, like to write literary criticism can specialize in literature, focusing on the study of literary theory and other theoretical courses. If you want to be an editorial and secretarial scribe, you should focus on modern Chinese language, official writing, literature and other courses.

Finally, we recommend a few strong Chinese universities, such as Peking University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Sichuan University and so on.

In short, the Chinese language department is too broad, if you want to learn all the way through, it is really too difficult. But if you have a focus and a goal, make your own learning plan, find a learning method, you will be able to swim easily, fruitful harvest.

Cherry blossoms in the College of Arts and Letters at Wuhan University

On this issue, more advice can be private letter to the author, the author will certainly be a patient answer to all.

The following is some advice from Ms. Li Qian about reading the Chinese department

Three misconceptions about reading the Chinese department

So next I will talk to you about a few misconceptions about the Chinese department.

The first misconception is that it's very easy to read a Chinese language course, and that's why it's so important to read a Chinese language course that specializes in novels, and that's a very easy thing to do.

What I want to say to you is that the Chinese Department is by no means a simple matter of reading novels, and even if you imagine that the field called reading novels may be defined in, for example, the history of literature, such a course. If you're in a Chinese department, you'll basically have a mandatory undergraduate course that will include the history of ancient Chinese literature, the history of modern Chinese literature, and modern Chinese literature.

This course involves a lot of reading because China is such a long country, we have a long written history, we have a very long history of written literature, so a history of Chinese literature might go all the way back to the Poetry Classic or even before that, all the way back to Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today, and that's a long journey of thousands of years.

My own major is linguistics, in fact, even if you don't read the linguistics major, now the Chinese Department of undergraduate studies will have modern Chinese, ancient Chinese, Introduction to Linguistics, the three basic courses, so this is the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the language of the part of the Chinese Department of students are very solid to lay the foundation of the course. So the Chinese department is not that good at all.

Two days ago our transcriptionist Huaisha asked me, he said why did you choose to major in linguistics? I answered with one word, difficult.

Because I think linguistics is a higher potential major, so our major will not only learn literature-related courses, a lot of linguistics courses, and even involves acoustics, sociology, anthropology, including my own major, but also go out to do field research in such a field.

So the Chinese department is not that good at all, it's not easy at all.

The second problem is that a lot of people don't find Chinese departments useful.

The second problem is that a lot of people don't think Chinese is useful. What else is there to read in Chinese? There are a lot of uses for a Chinese language degree.

I just shared my professional experience, and all these professional experiences you will see that I am constantly changing, whether it is the content of my work, the way I work, whether it is in the new media or the old media, this is all changing.

But what has remained the same throughout? It's that I think I developed a very strong reading ability and a habit of writing in the Chinese department.

I may be in the last three years of work, basically every year I have to do the editing of the manuscript, I think every year more than 1 million words, which is not I read casually browse, is every word I have to seriously look at, I do content editing of more than 1 million words.

Such a large workload actually requires a person to have a very strong ability to read and understand others from reading, and to quickly grasp the core of the content, and this ability is something that I have developed over many years of training in the Chinese language.

And then there's the habit of writing. When you're young, you think you're going to go to a Chinese department, you come in with a so-called literary dream, but not all Chinese people can develop a habit of writing as many words as they want to write every day.

It's a day-to-day effort, and when you get to a certain point, whether you're rewriting a manuscript or you're trying to make a statement, the time is shortened, and it becomes very fast.

So, I think, is there a use for a Chinese language department? What kind of use is there for a Chinese language department? In fact, as long as you have very good reading and writing skills in today's society, your future is going to be very broad.

Like I said, when I was studying Chinese, I didn't know I would get a job like this. But today I love my job, and I get a lot of intellectual enjoyment out of it, and that intellectual enjoyment is not just limited to the narrow part of the Chinese department that people think of, but I get to read a lot of history, politics, and all sorts of courses, and I get to work on hardcore engineering stuff like probability, algorithms, and so on.

As you know, I am the editor-in-chief of Mr. Wu Jun's "Wu Jun - Reading and Writing" class, which is a particularly big one for me to apply my profession and my many years of accumulated practice to this course to serve our users well, and I feel that after accumulating so much, I am particularly happy to be able to put it in this class today.

The third misconception about the Chinese language department is that people in the Chinese language department are noble.

This is the first time I've seen a Chinese language course, and I've seen a Chinese language course, and I've seen a Chinese language course, and I've seen a lot of Chinese language courses.

This is not to say much, look at me as a person, I believe that I am in the company is a lot of colleagues are willing to play with me, there is something willing to look for me to discuss the person. Including the other day, I organized the company's fourth anniversary of a group building activities, I pulled the colleagues. I myself did not expect, including three back-end engineers.

I think this is the charm of reading Chinese, this charm is not that my personal charm here, but to a large extent the Chinese department, we read Chinese, read so much literature, it is to a large extent is actually to enhance human empathy.

Everyone we ourselves can only live a lifetime, and often I have young colleagues who ask me and say, cook, you are so much older than me, I can't possibly know as many people as you do, and have so much work experience. How can I improve my empathy?

I would suggest that maybe you look at the novels, you take from the novels of other people, and isn't that him modeling the lives of so many people?

You improve yourself from looking at other people's lives, it's like mimicking the fact that you've lived a dozen lifetimes yourself. In this way, in fact, because you are immersed in the Chinese language, you have the ability to understand others, the growth of empathy, I believe that in today's business society, or your daily treatment of people, including your family relationships are very, very important ability.

Benefits of studying Chinese

So I'm going to give a general explanation about the three misconceptions about Chinese language courses. What are the benefits of studying Chinese?

The first benefit is what I just said, that Chinese department offers unlimited possibilities, and it fosters an open self.

I would also like to emphasize secondly, if you are a Chinese person, and you live in China, it provides a possibility for you to make the widest possible connection with the Chinese cultural matrix.

As I said earlier, China is a country with 5000 years of history, we have a long written history, and we have produced a lot of cultural symbols. Some of these symbols are people in the written language, some people understand, some people do not understand. But today, as China's entire international status improves, including the strengthening of national self-confidence, how important our cultural matrix is to us, I think we will be very clear today.

It doesn't just mean a question of your national self-confidence, but probably a lot of future business, a lot of creativity, a lot of ideas are going to grow out of this big tree with deep roots, and the Chinese language department is a wide enough river and a long enough road.

We have Classics all the way to Linguistics, including such a study that grows out of the disciplinary system of modern science in the West. The same is true of literature. We have a very long literary tradition, but today, if we study the history of literature, we also need to respond to the modern trend of literary studies.

So this is a field that is both ancient and modern, and the road is long enough and the river is wide enough. You're in a field where you may dig deep, dig to a point that interests you, and you can be a scholar, a researcher, or you may not dig deep, you browse in general, and then you form a broad chassis for yourself.

You, because you're being an open self, that equates to a myriad of sockets that you can more easily plug into opportunities for those careers that may come in the future that we don't even know about.

So what I'm telling you very literally is what kind of benefits the Chinese department has for the individual.

Lastly, I'd like to say a little bit more, I personally think that studying Chinese is a program that can make people happier in life.

I've seen a survey in the U.S., the U.S. has an English department, the average income of English students may be a little lower than the median, but they also surveyed the English students' life satisfaction is much higher than that of the average professional students, and even ranked in the top five.

Anyway, I've proven in my own life that my own life satisfaction and happiness is quite high when I study Chinese, and I believe it's because I've cultivated my aesthetic and sensory abilities.

How to study Chinese?

Speaking of which, I might want to give a tip to some students who want to study Chinese, or who might have some thoughts about it, and that is, how to study Chinese well?

Chinese department honestly, you have to say good read easy, may also be quite easy to mix out of the diploma, but really read a master, let's talk about some practical, into the university what to do? I'll give you a few suggestions.

The first is to emphasize the history of literature.

The first is to emphasize the history of literature. You love to read novels, you love to read poems is one way to read, but the Chinese department provides a whole set of education on the whole history of Chinese literature, from the ancient times to the present day, which is to help you to build a whole structure of the Chinese literature overlooking.

It's a very logical and analytical academic tradition, so it's important to emphasize the history of literature, not just to immerse yourself in a particular writer or a particular work that you love.

The second is to read as many ancient books as you can.

The second thing is to read as many ancient books as you can. You can pass to the pre-Qin, read down the hundred schools, the historical records, read down the back of these things, you look back, whether it is the modern Songyuan books, Ming and Qing novels is very easy, but you say I'm only interested in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, not to go forward? You have not done this training, sorry, may be in the future to make up this lesson will become very difficult.

The third suggestion is not to skip linguistics classes. Perhaps many people who have been to the Chinese department feel that I came here with a dream for literature, and that the linguistics courses are so boring that I don't like to learn them, and that I should skip them if I can. I'm not sure if I'm a good student or not, but I'd like to give you some advice, don't skip the linguistics courses.

In China, most of the linguistics is not independent of the department, but in my opinion, linguistics is one of the few high potential professional courses in the liberal arts, these courses down to your logical thinking, including your combing of materials to draw conclusions, including your deduction from the facts to the point of view, the ability to do these things will have a particularly big help. That's why it's recommended to never skip a linguistics class.

The last two suggestions are actually related to writing, that is, to call on the Chinese department, in the surrounding environment or how to stick to writing. In fact, I know that the Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University has a particularly good tradition, it should be the first year of enrollment, requiring everyone to hand in a hundred small essays, or called reading notes and so on, anyway, no matter what you write, you must write a hundred, write enough to a certain amount.

In fact, to be able to adhere to their own daily output of writing, you just need to adhere to a period of time, there is enough accumulation of quantity, will reach the qualitative change.

Lastly, a change in the times, for example, before we write may be their own diary, and then began to newspapers and magazines to submit articles.

Now newspapers and magazines do not accept you do not matter, you can open a self media, why must register a self media way?

is that you have a with the world to breathe in and out, your words out, there will be someone to give you feedback, even without feedback is also called feedback. You will improve your own writing skills in the midst of constant feedback.

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If you're serious, everything is easy

I'm Brother Daozhong, I'll answer. Is it difficult to study Chinese? I can tell you with certainty that it needs to be looked at dialectically whether it is difficult or not.

It can be argued that the Chinese department is very easy to study. The full name of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature is the Department of Chinese Language and Literature. As the name suggests, the curriculum of the Chinese department is divided into two parts: language and literature. The language is very difficult to learn, English, Japanese, French, which is not good to learn. However, to learn Chinese, which you have been speaking since you were a child, I can tell you with certainty that there is no difficulty.

The other part of the Chinese department is literature. Is literature good to learn? When you are in elementary school, you start to learn the language, and you also start to learn Tang poems. In middle school, you can read novels. If you like to read long novels, then your literature course will be of great interest. The so-called literature course is to study the classics of ancient and modern literature, which is not much different from reading literature. To many people, reading literature is a break. So, for those who are interested, taking a literature course is also the same as taking a break. There's nothing difficult about that in itself.

On the other hand I will tell you again. Chinese is hard to learn. I say it's hard to learn because it's hard to learn well.

I'm going to talk about it from two perspectives: language and literature.

I still talk about language and literature from two points of view. It involves literature and exegesis. Each Chinese character was written in a different way in ancient times. For oracle bone inscriptions and gold inscriptions, you need to memorize a lot of things and read a lot of ancient books. Those books, many of them are boring.

Then again, literature. For literature, though, middle school students can read. And 1000 readers have 1000 Hamlets. However, different Hamlets can show different levels between them. It takes a lot of hard work to realize the theory students inside literature. Moreover, the development of literary theory and philosophy are very close. Every philosophical trend forms a new literary theory. The system of literary theories is very large. The above is only one aspect. The amount of literature, both ancient and modern, is also very large. No one can spend a lifetime reading all the classic works of literature. It is impossible to read all the Chinese classics, not to mention the foreign ones. The theories are very complicated, and so are the works. What can we do? On the one hand, we need the guidance of teachers, but there is only one way to do more. The book mountain has the road as the path, the sea of learning has no end as the boat of pain.

This is roughly the state of affairs when it comes to the difficulty of studying the Chinese language, and when it comes to the difficulty of studying the Chinese language. When I say that Chinese is difficult to study, I am talking about the situation of master's and doctoral students. For undergraduates, the Chinese department is relatively comfortable. My impression is that ancient Chinese in the language courses is a bit difficult. Ancient Literature in the Literature program is a little bit difficult. The other courses, such as Introduction to Culture, Introduction to Aesthetics, Introduction to Linguistics, Logic, Official Writing, Film and Television Criticism Writing, etc., are frankly just small dishes.

If you like the Chinese department, then take the plunge. It's really a very good major. The caliber of Chinese language students in terms of employment is very large. Chinese language students can learn a lot in four years if they are willing to work hard. At least they can memorize a lot of ancient texts and poems. This learning accumulation is very difficult to acquire after one reaches a certain age.

First of all, the Chinese Department is divided into Arts and Letters, Ancient Chinese Literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature and World Literature, Chinese Language and Literature, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Classical Chinese Literature, Drama, Film and Television Literature, Teaching of Disciplines (Language), Curriculum and Teaching Theory (Direction of Teaching of Languages) and so on.

How difficult is it to study Chinese?

The basic content of the undergraduate level, the history of ancient literature, the history of modern and contemporary literature, the history of foreign literature, ancient Chinese language, modern Chinese language, literary theory, comparative literature, the concept of Mao and so on. If it is for the test, memorization, the effort is not a big problem, but to study in depth, or need a certain amount of effort, memorization to engage in the theory that is dead knowledge, as long as their understanding of the study in order to master.

What can I do after learning?

How do you learn?

If you truth to become a writer, I think it has nothing to do with the writing, first of all, read the masterpieces, it is best to be able to other areas of the clerk, choose a field of study to concentrate on, write novels on the novels, like the history of history on the history. Learning Chinese theoretical knowledge, can only improve the writing, know the norms, and really want to write a good article, must have rich experience as well as imagination. It has nothing to do with the specialty, in a word: move the pen to write. Specifically still depends on what you learn to do.

The better Chinese universities in China are: Beijing University, Beijing Normal University, Fudan University, Nandujing University, Shandong University, Central China Normal University, East China Normal University, Zhejiang University, Sun Yat-sen University, Nankai University, Wuhan University, National People's Congress, know the capital of the University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Jilin University, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Soochow University, Jinan University, Shaanxi Shihua University and other roads. Choosing a Chinese language university, both the school and the faculty.

If you like it, you won't find it difficult;

If you don't like it, you will definitely find it difficult!