Jiang says the Chinese language is China's 'great wall' because its character-based system is extremely difficult to learn and trains both education and culture around years of rote memorization.
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Rote Memorization
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"...only way to learn a language is through many years of rote memorization and that becomes the basis for the education system as well..."
"years of methodically memorizing the characters and there's a lot of characters but there's at least 2 000 characters that you must memorize if..."
"...system, which is a very time consuming and labor intensive and rote memorization intensive. Right."
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