lol try " you need to know 5000 characters to read a fairytale for a kindergarten"

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I forgot to mention that stroke order is also important for writing cursive in Chinese, though because I'm not that good at Chinese, it's hard for me to read; it's like scribble lol. However, the only cursive I would write is if the character contained 口(kou).

Like I said in a previous post, do you consider that you know a language if you can speak it or you know a language if you can also write and read it?

If thats the case then I can read, write and speak fluently 4 languages and I plan on learning Chinese, Japanese and Russian in the next 3 years..

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I learned it was because of calligraphy. I was told to try writing with a brush --- I would then learn to appreciate stroke order. The character is supposed to look neater, more correct, with proper stoke order (using a brush). I've never tried; I'm not good at characters as it is, I don't need a brush mutilating my "writing".

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