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简体字与繁体字

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ID: 0795 Advanced
简体字方便！繁体字好看！简体字破坏汉字结构！繁体字浪费宝贵时间！关于繁体字和简体字的争论有很多呢！你学汉字了吗？你学的是简体还是繁体？你觉得繁体字好还是简体字好呢？让我们一起在中文播客学习和讨论吧。
Mon Feb 18 2008 | Jenny, Connie
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
嚷 rǎng to shout
简化 jiǎnhuà simplification
甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén bone carving
金文 jīnwén bronze inscriptions
哎，真头疼。都是简体字。
āi ，zhēn tóu téng 。dōu shì jiǎntǐzì 。
Oh, what a headache. It's all in simplified characters.
不会吧，看繁体字才晕。
bùhuì ba ，kàn fántǐzì cái yūn 。
No way! Read traditional characters and then you'll know what a headache is.
台湾很多人说简体字简直就是破坏汉字结构。
Táiwān hěn duō rén shuō jiǎntǐzì jiǎnzhí jiùshì pòhuài hànzì jiégòu 。
Many Taiwanese say that simplified characters have simply demolished the structure of Chinese characters.
大陆也有人嚷着要恢复繁体字。不过简体方便，容易写容易记。据说扫盲多亏了它。再说几千年来汉字一直在简化啊。从甲骨文、金文变为篆书，再变为隶书、楷书，总体趋势就是从繁到简。
dàlù yě yǒurén rǎng zhe yào huīfù fántǐzì 。bùguò jiǎntī fāngbiàn ，róngyì xiě róngyì jì 。jùshuō sǎománg duōkuī le tā 。zàishuō jǐ qiān nián lái hànzì yīzhí zài jiǎnhuà ā 。cóng jiǎgǔwén 、jīnwén biàn wéi zhuànshū ，zài biàn wéi lìshū 、kǎishū ，zǒngtǐ qūshì jiùshì cóng fán dào jiǎn 。
There are also people on the mainland who say we should get back to traditional characters. But simplified characters are convenient, easy to remember and to write. Apparently they did a lot to reduce illiteracy. And furthermore, Chinese characters have been being simplified for thousands of years. From oracle bones and bronze inscriptions to seal script, and then again to the Han script and regular script-- the general trend is from complexity to simplicity.
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