Hi all. So here's my question. Given that Mandarin Chinese is iconographic, could I just learn like, say, the 2000 most common symbols and be able to essentially read Mandarin/pick up the basic sentence structure, or is this naive? I know nothing about how Mandarin works, whether it's cases or word order or both or something different altogether that does the work, but fluency isn't my goal anyway. I'm just wondering if doing this would allow me read basic sentences and parse the key elements from more complex sentences. Just wondering if this is naive before I buy a character book, and maybe a grammar book.
As a second question: is Mandarin an "easy" language to learn if I only learn it written? Unlike English or German or etc, it doesn't really have spelling or what seems to be any phonetics in their characters (at least nowadays). Given that this is the case, I feel like learning the characters and the grammar, but just talking in English for the characters but in Chinese order/however it works in my head, would mean I'd be able to read and communicate in Mandarin. Is this correct? Is this naive? Is this silly?
Thank you for your replies and your insights. All the best.
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