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An address of more than usual interest on "learning of Chinese without tears," as the speaker expressed it, was given by Pro- fessor Erwin Reiffer, Doctor of Political Science of the University of Vienna, Professor of Chiaotung University of Shanghai, at the weekly timin meeting of the Hong Kong Rotary Club yesterday at the Hong Kong Hotel.

Professor Reifer, during and mostly at the end of the talk. took great pains to explain the symbolic nature of the Chinese characters by ocular demonstrations on the blackboard, and show- ed the audience how easy it was it remember the characters.

According to Professor Reifler there is apparently a super- stition in China that the English only learn foreign languages with great difficulty. This superstition, which was quite contrary to facts, had done much harm, he said. Some of the greatest sinologues had been English people and had written excellent text-books, dictionaries and standard translation of the Chinese language.

My own teacher. Professor Arthur shows that the quickest and safest von Rosthorn of Vienna University | way, after all, is via the Chinese (the former Austrian Ambassador pictographs. The reasons why this to China, is an Austrian of Eng- is so I cannot explain in the short lish origin, and my spiritual grand- time at my disposat it would re- father in the knowledge of the quire another lecture.

famous Chinese language is the

Dr. Legge. whose name is well- known to you in Hong Kong, pro- ceeded Professor Relfer.

My rather extensive experience has shown that the Englishman

GUIDING PRINCIPLE But the guiding principle is: "No well spoken Chinese is possible a knowledge of charac- ters." The language itself is very easy there is almost no grammar

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become a universal language.

ENGLISH AND CHINESE Besides this, there are

many

similarities between the English and the Chinese language. Take for instance the sequence of words in a simple sentence, which is the

same in both languages.

But its the Chinese characters which all foreigners Bre really afraid of. And why? Because the old China-bands usually tell the young China-hands the fairy-tale of the many Chinese characters one has to learn. That is com-

pletely wrong. Though the famous Chinese dictionary of Emperor Kanghsi has about 40.000 char-

certainly have more than 100,000 words.

In English we say: "I eat rice."acters, the largest English diction and the Chinese say just the same, arles whereas the Japanese say: "I the rice the eat" (the word "the" follows each noun). Thus, we already re- cognise the fact that Chinese is more closely related than Japanese to English. The simplicity of the grammar, furthermore, shows many parallels in English and Chinese. And while the German and the French usually say: "A such man," the Chinese say exactly like the English: "Such a man"!

SIMILAR PSYCHOLOGY While in the Japanese language the preposition follows the noun and the conjunction follow the de-

ONLY 10,000 And how many of those does the average Englishman really know? But to say there are 40,000 char- acters is misleading because one half represent only the old forms of the other half. Thus, there re- main only 20,000. Of these, about one half are variations; mistakes of old scribes and many are obsolete characters which would have to be looked

by a Chinese scholar, if he happened to find one on an ancient inscription. only about there remain

קט

even

Thus. 10,000.

1. very logical or 2. very illogical; 3. very clever or very stupid; 5 very interesting or 6. very para- doxical; 7. very funny, 8. very pleasant or 9. very unpleasant.

COMPLICATED CHARACTERS Maybe there are some more of this kind, but I think, they are the most important cases. Generally we can say that everything that has made you think, that has made you astonished, that you and un- believable, that you find offensive or that has made you laugh to death, you won't forget for your whole life.

These means must, therefore, be extensively used, especially for the teaching of languages, which other. wise can be very dry.

I shall show you, now a few of the more complicated characters. and ask you will try to explain them to me. But before you do this I want to give you two secret hinta: Whenever you want to ex- plain a Chinese character, try to make all upright elements lie down, and secondly make as far as possi- ble all straight lines round, be- cause the old forms were round as far as it was compatible with the original form of the object depicted by the pictographs.

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With these two hints and with the knowledge of the approx!mäte- ly 250 simple symbols and experience, you would be able to explain almost every Chinese char- acter you meet for the first time. After about six months study one is able to do that

SENT TO THE SESSIONS

A sequel to an armed robbery was mentioned at the Central Magistracy yesterday, before -Mr. w: Schofield, when Cheung Kan appeared before him charged with being an accomplice in an armed robbery that teck place at No. 4 Kwan Yick Street on February 7.

Chief Detective Inspector J. Murphy conducted the case for the prosecution. He stated that three men have already. been convicted at the Sessions for tue offence.

At midnight on the above date, four to six Tobbers armed with daggers entered the premises men- tloned above and woke the inmates. driving them to the main office. The master, who slept in the office. was also wakened and the robbers The then tied them with wire. master of the shop, Ng Man-yee. was stabbed by one of the robbers. The robbers left the premises with $891.90.

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pler, while a Japanese says: "I the money the is no because, theatre to "going matter the possible-is-not," the Chinese express this exactly like the English, that is: "Because

SYMBOLIC SCRIPT

are perhaps known only by a Chin- ese scholar of high standing, and even he does not use them all.

·2000 SUFFICIENT The average educated Chinese,

to say after which he was com- mitted to stand trial at the next Criminal Sessions.

I have no money,. I can not who has graduated from a Chinese

LOCAL ESTATES studied to the theatre."

has not university, and From this we find, that the Chin-Chinese Philology, has at his dis-

Violet Lo, alias Lo L Shi, allas ese, as inhabitants of the same posal 6,000 characters, of which, Eurasia, have a similar psychology however, he only needs a small L Sbau Hang, widow, late. of No. to the English, while the Japan-cumber. For the enjoyment of ese islanders of the Pacific have Chinese riovels, and perusal of psychologically nothing whatsoever, newspapers and letters, one needs to do with the English.

about 2.000. to. 3,000 characters.

Büt all Chinese characters, that is all 20,000, are composed of about But, on the other hand, the English writing has, during the 250 elements. These I should call letters of a spiritual alphabet. last few centuries, lost more and more its letter character and deve-They are simple symbols, the know- loped more and more into a sym-ledge of which greatly simplified bolic script. that is, a kind of the memorizing of characters. writing which gives much more to the eye than to the ear and tongue, and this is a kind of criticism. which, completely and exactly. nts

SOME EXAMPLES

44 Hollywood Road, first floor, who age of 28 at tne died at the Canossa (Italian) Hospital on July 15, 1937, left local estate to the A petition by value of $28,000,

married woman, Phyllis Law,

SLESOON Road, and "Rockhu," Edna Ho Leung, widow, of Tytam Villa, Island Road, for grant of probate of the will of the deceased has been granted by the Supreme Court.

Loca estate sworn under $1,900

I will give you a few examples. was left by Chan Sik Yuen, "allas The Chinese farmer in the mass Chan Chak Ting, alias Chan Chak education district of Tinghsien in Ng Tong, salesman, late of No. 235 the Chinese writing.,

North China easily learned during Queen's Road West, second floor, 1,300 char-who died intestate at the age of You write much more than you four winter months pronounce, outdoing by fax in this acters, which had been specially 46 on January 7, 1931. A petition respect the French, and are unly selected

requirements.by. Chan Li Shi, allas Li Shuk outdone by the Tibetans. Thus, Should not the foreigner, with | Ching, widow, of No. 2 Kwan Yick the English write for instance his boasted education, intelligence street. first floor. for grant of Gloucester and say Gloster, Leices-and "world-mastery" be able easily letters of administration ter and say Lester, Worcester and to learn about 2,000 characters in estate of the deceased has been say Wooster, Cholmondeley and six months, in addition to the pur- graned.

for his

say only Chumly, Majoribanks and suit of all his other interests?. The Bay Marchbanks. If this develop-Chinese office boys learn a good ment goes on, then one day the deal of English and the foreigner use of pletographs will perhaps. would suffer great loss of fare li be found to be of much greater he admitted that he could not ac- advantage than this complicated quire a fair knowledge of Chinese. historical writing, which according

to my experience, also offers diff-

"MEMOTECHNICS"

He has, of course, to handle the culties to the English themselves.subject otherwise than the Chinese, SPECIAL PREDESTINATION because arst of all he does not For the Chinese, there is no such talk the language from childhood difficulty. But what should es- as the Chinese farmers do; second- pecially simplify the study of the ly, he has entirely different gifts. Chinese language for English pec- What we need and what we are ple, more than for the French, using in Europe and America on Italians. German etc., is the fact a great scale, with the greatest ad- of the highly monosyllabic char vantage, is "Memotechnics," and acter or the English language. this has been neglected hitherto Thus, I would almost dare to say, in China.

to the

POLICE REPORTS

Maurreen Bennet, of No. 39 Nathan Road, third floor, was treated at the Kowloon Hospital yesterday as the result of a dog bite. The dog was sent to the Matzukok Kennels for observation.

Suffering from lacerations. to. her right hand, which she caught In a rubber cutting machine, Lau Yuen, aged 86. was removed to Queen Mary Hospital.

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Wong Kul, aged 33, of Reclama- tion Street, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, with injuries to that, the English have. a special!This memotechnics is a quite her head after being knocked predestination for the Chinese unmoral science. Its baals prin-down by lorry No. 4170 in Nathan language.

ciple is: "The atm justifies the Road. After this long introduction we meana" It does not matter, how come to the theme proper: How you do it. If you only do not for- can one, manage to learn Chinese get what you ought to remember, in the quickest and easiest manner Experience shows, that we easily and really enjoy it? Experience remember what is either;

"

Leung Wing, aged 30, coal coole, was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital with chopper wounds to his head and shoulders, allegedly inflicted by a man now in custody.

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