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On Language Log, Victor Mair, professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote in February 2014 (emphasis added):

If I were the czar or god of Chinese and Japanese language pedagogy, I would not teach students a single Chinese character until they were relatively fluent — about two years. I've always said that we should learn languages the way babies do; they learn to speak long before they learn to write.

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