The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China (Classic Reprint): By the Use of Which Illiterate Chinese Both Blind and Sighted Can Very Quickly Be Taught to Read and Write Fluently - Couverture souple

Constance F. Gordon Cumming

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ISBN 10 : 1330219090 ISBN 13 : 9781330219096

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China: By the Use of Which Illiterate Chinese Both Blind and Sighted Can Very Quickly Be Taught to Read and Write Fluently

Here, therefore, we realize something of the vast im portance of the invention of a system so very simple that the most illiterate persons, both blind and sighted, can (if they choose TO try) learn both to read and write in less than three months - many have done so in half that time.

A sighted Chinaman learning to read his own book must be able to recognize at sight AT least four thousand complicated characters. This generally involves about six years Of study.

It was, however, pointed out by Dr. Morrison, the first missionary to China, that (as is stated in the native diction aries) there are only four hundred and twenty distinct sounds IN mandarin-chinese, which IS the language OF four-fifths OF the whole empire. Therefore, when Mr.

Murray longed to teach the blind, he aimed at finding some method by which to represent four hundred and twenty sounds. (he found it possible to reduce this number to 408.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330219090
• ISBN 13: 9781330219096
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 207
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