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Chinese Characters Help Improve IQ
Chinese characters may be the reason why local children aged between six and 12 display a higher IQ than their peers in Britain. Germany and Australia.
The pictographic nature of the Chinese writing system helps to inspire the thinking ability of children. Their intelligence develops better while they learn the characters.36 I ani 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. 37 The words for numerals are all monosyllabic (单音节的)) in Chinese. In contrast, their equivalents (对应词) in Malay have two or three syllables， like sa -tu， du-a，ti-ga， em-pat，li-ma，e-nant 38 Their English equivalents – one，two， three,，four， five, six， seven，eight，nine. ten. hundred， thousand， million - include multi-syllabic words， too. 39 Children easily find that it is in the Chinese language that they can do the job fastest.
