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How many foreigner needs to know hanzi

I mean the number of characters, not the foregneirs.......
when learning Chinese, and wanting to pass Chiense language test? (HSK for example).

Asked by Rose on 09:47, 20/08/2008 - 174 views
Learn Chinese(Mandarin) , using Chinese(Mandarin)      Tags: Beginner Reading
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HSK has guidlines. I'm pretty sure that if you want to take the entry level exam you don't need to know too many, maybe 500 but once you advance to the next stage you will need 1500-2000 to pass. If you want to learn to be a translator you need to know at least 5000 words.
However, like has been mentioned above...to live in China comfortably, you should grasp at least 1000 characters and know how to speak around 2000.
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en, that is a difficult question for me, since i ve learned hanzi when i was a kid, and by now i ve no idea how many words exactly i ve learned.
i guess that maybe u have to memorize at least 1,000 hanzi, and of course u have also to know lots of
words which is made up by these hanzi. i think that isnt a easy job for the foregner.
but anyway i hope u can make it!
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I think 2000 -3000 is enough. these are in common use.
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I think 1000-2000 characters is enough in our daily life.
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多多益善
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1000 for general conversation should be adequate. maybe 3000-5000 for reading newspapers. The more the merrier! If you know 20 000 that be nice.
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The more the better!
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好好学习,天天向上
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i think maybe i know about 2000-3000 characters now but i often find it's not enough... i would feel better knowing about 5000. then i can stop looking up words hahaha the bad thing about that is those extra 2000 words are not as commonly used and u have to use them often or u will forget them haha
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对中国学生高考的要求,是5000。日常生活在3000以内。
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i agree with forthspring.
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