Interesting Fact from one of my history books

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Did you know that to be functionally literate in Chinese you have to know 3,000-5,000 characters...out of 50,000

Yeah i thought that was kind of shocking.

 

[olena]

Something else I heard about their language is that there are no verb tenses. After struggling with the subjunctive tense, I found myself wishing I'd studied Chinese!

Great fact! Thanks...