when to start learning Traditional before moving to Taiwan

[imron]

Assuming your situation is unchanged and you're planning to go to Taiwan rather than mainland China, I'd just go all in on Traditional.

 

4 hours ago, jannesan said:

Now with all the 异体字 (in total up to a 1000 I think, need to dig a bit more into this), the effort of learning how to write becomes much higher suddenly.

How many of those are characters you will commonly encounter though?

[jannesan]

On 6/22/2021 at 1:38 PM, imron said:

Assuming your situation is unchanged and you're planning to go to Taiwan rather than mainland China, I'd just go all in on Traditional.

 

I would love to go, but it's not all up to me, so for now I'm not ready yet to fully switch over.

 

On 6/22/2021 at 1:38 PM, imron said:

How many of those are characters you will commonly encounter though?

 

Yea probably not so many, that number (1000) is the length of the "第一批异体字整理表" and quite a few of those were actually simplified after being standardized. Plus there are quite some characters like 却 and 脚, where knowing only one means you know the other. I'll do some more analysis when I have time and update here.

 

But in any case, in the meantime I should just start reading traditional material regularly, it should not really be a problem for reading comprehension.