I'm not completely literate (lacking in vocabulary) but fluent in speaking/listening. I can read most commonly used words/phrases and for everything else, there's contextual clues and radicals.
as my mom is taiwanese and i live in canada, i have not learned to read or write chinese although i can understand and speak. but thats not really an excuse.... i have no idea about any of the simplified characters, but i can recognize some traditional ones~
my grandpa is Chinese well... Jamaican but his parents were Chinese so they taught him and he taught me just a little, can't say I know the language well enough, just enough to read the menu when I go to an authentic Chinese restaurant in China Town
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I'm not completely literate (lacking in vocabulary) but fluent in speaking/listening. I can read most commonly used words/phrases and for everything else, there's contextual clues and radicals.