Students' Perceived Difficulties in Reading Chinese characters

You have tasks here to complete in English. (1) Please express your perceived difficulities in reading Chinese paragraphs in characters, by listing as many as you can. You can first talk about difficulties in general, and then take examples of reading the following passage. (2) Please write the meaning of the passage in English. (3) Please take down the time taken in reading this passage.

Please note that reading this passage is also a revision of our first term. Look forward to your response.
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  1. Please list difficulties in reading Chinese characters.

    田大为是陈娜的好朋友。昨天田大为去陈娜的宿舍找她，她不在。他问：“她在哪儿？” 陈娜宿舍的朋友说：“陈娜现在很忙，你可以去学生餐厅，看她在那儿吗？如果不在，你要去京剧院，你知道陈娜是英国人，她有英国朋友来中国北京看京剧。” 田大为知道了：今天有很有意思的京剧。陈娜和她的英国朋友们一定很高兴。


  1. Please write the meaning of this paragraph in English.

    田大为是陈娜的好朋友。昨天田大为去陈娜的宿舍找她，她不在。他问：“她在哪儿？” 陈娜宿舍的朋友说：“陈娜现在很忙，你可以去学生餐厅，看她在那儿吗？如果不在，你要去京剧院，你知道陈娜是英国人，她有英国朋友来中国北京看京剧。” 田大为知道了：今天有很有意思的京剧。陈娜和她的英国朋友们一定很高兴。


  1. How long have it taken you to read the above passage?





Zhiyan
Senior Tutor of Chinese
Language Centre, The University of Warwick