Re: How many years dedicated to characters learning in China ?

"Joachim" == Joachim Pense <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> (In extreme cases, it may turn out that this character has NO
>> pronunciation in Chinese, because it is a Japanese-coined
>> character, which only has proper pronunciation in Japanese. In
>> other words, that's not a Chinese character. It's a Japanese
>> one. But that doesn't hurt my comprehension of the text at
>> all. After all, that character is just a visual sign to me.)

Joachim> Does that mean you read on a purely visual level without
Joachim> any subvocalizing?

My Ph.D. supervisor finds the Croatian island name "Krk" funny,
because he can't understand how it can be pronounced.

Now, tell me, did you subvocalize "Krk" when reading the paragraph
above?

I don't.


Joachim> Or will you put some sort of "stub-word" (like, say
Joachim> "some-kind-of-fish" into your subvocalizing stream?

Neither.

To me, "Krk" are just those 3 Latin letters. I don't pronounce these
letters nor the name. (I don't care whether to pronounce it as
"kay-ar-kay" (English letter names) or "ka-er-ka" (German/French
names). To me, they're just 3 Latin letters. I know how to recognize
and write these 3 letters. And I can pronounce them in different ways
when I need to. But when I'm reading these 3 letters, I don't need to
think about sounds.

So, I'd say I don't subvocalize "Krk", nor read it purely visually. I
read it on the grapheme level. And the sequence K-R-K forms a
mnemonic to me. That's a logical unit. You print the same name in
another font (or even Suetterlin), and I still interpret it as the
same mnemonic.


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