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22. Chinese Characters Help Improve IQ
Chinese characters may be the reason why local children aged between six and 12 display a higher IQ1 than their peers2 in Britain, Germany and Australia.
The pictographic nature of the Chinese writing system helps to stimulate the thinking faculty of children. Their intelligence develops better while they learn the characters.
This was disclosed by Dr Zeng Zeng, assistant professor3 of psychology at NUS, in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao as was reported.
I am a retired Chinese-language teacher from Malaysia. From my experiences, I have long noticed that Chinese-medium-educated students always excel in mathematics as compared with those taught in other languages. The secret lies in the Chinese characters. The words for numerals are all monosyllabic4 in Chinese. In contrast, their equivalents in Malay have two or three syllables, like sa -tu, du-a, ti-ga , em-pat, li-ma , e-nam, tu-juh, lapan, sem-bi-lan, se -pu-luh. It takes a longer time to pronounce these words. Their English equivalents one, two , three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, hundred, thousand, million include multi-syllabic words, too.
The difference between them is most striking when it comes to memorising the multiplication table . Children easily find that it is in the Chinese language that they can do the job fastest.
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