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[quote=SANYACHINA,231512]"Now, clearly you don't understand how literacy is defined or how literacy rates are measured."

Oh, it is easy.  If I can understand Hegel, believe me, the definition " age 15 and over can read and write" is just piece of cake for me! About the measure I will tell you how:

A Turkish child will never ask me how to right "NECK", but an over 20 years old girl, already asked about it. So long about the measure...

"The survey I cited defined the adult literacy rate as the percentage of the population over the age of 15 who could read and write a simple sentence about themselves with understanding."

Dear God, some Chinese can't right even few words without mistake and you're talking about a SENTENCE! :D

"That's a much lower standard than you seem to be applying. I believe the Chinese government standard is the ability to read and write the 1500 most commonly used characters. Those characters make up somewhere in the region of 90% of all Chinese texts. So using the literacy rate from the survey I cited and the Chinese government's standard for literacy, we can safely assume that roughly 85% of Chinese people aged over 15 can read 90% of what is written in Renmin Ribao."

Good hope!

"Let's get this straight: Literacy is not the ability to read every single word or Chinese character. Nobody can do that. Even in developed countries, very, very many people have very basic reading and writing skills. Just after I graduated I did a course in Adult Literacy Tutoring, and some of the things I learned in that course were surprising, shocking, even: In New Zealand, which for many, many years had literacy and remedial reading programmes that were the envy of the world, 30% of the adult population were functionally illiterate."
 
  CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT WILL BE THE % IF THEY HAVE TO LEARN AT LEAST 1500 "pictures", not 26 letters?

T"hat is why you're "example" of a 7 year old Russian being able to read anything written in Russian while a 20 year old Chinese struggles with Renmin Ribao is irrelevant."

It is strange how this example get to be irrelevant now, but it was relevant before, when you thought that you are right. :) YOU MADE MY DAY :)

ANOTHER FOOD FOR THINKING:

-WHY CHINESE CAN LEARN THE 33 RUSSIAN LETTERS FOR 1 WEEK AND CAN START READ RUSSIAN FOR 2 WEEKS, BUT RUSSIANS, ENGLISHMEN, MONGOLIANS CAN'T LEARN TO READ CHINESE EVEN FOR 2 MONTHS?

OR JUST:

WHICH IS EASIER TO LEARN:  "YXO" (In Russian means "EAR") or "耳朵"(in Chinese, the same word).

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 In the topic below EVEN HAN-CHINESE think that their language is difficult, why here we have to read that it is easy, average and without any troubles for the learners?[/quote]

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