Started losing me at: 学字 - creative teaching & boring teaching, I don't und...

alanning · on May 4, 2012

I was disappointed with that section as well. Thought it could have been written clearer to differentiate the two.

学 - study

字 - character

So the author actually meant boring teaching of 'characters' with the section on 字 but I don't think it came across well.

elliotlai · on May 4, 2012

In my point of view, as a native Traditional Chinese user (I'm from Taiwan)

THIS ARTICLE IS SO WRONG!

学 is actually the simplified version of the character 學. And the character 子 in both of these characters doesn't really have much connections

The character 子 (literally means children) in 學 stands for "student", but in 字 it is just a rebus (phonetic loan) character.

raldi · on May 4, 2012

学 means "learn"

字 means "characters"

grovecai · on May 5, 2012

>字 means "characters" Not exactly! Single 字 has meanings in Chinese, but single character generally has no meaning in English.