<p>I am not interested in learning simplified. I am interested in learning traditional.</p>
<p>This is very important, please advise.</p>
<p>UW teaches simplified Chinese. I also wish they would teach traditional but simplified Chinese is what you see in mainland China. There are still a lot of the same characters between the two, not all characters are simplified. But a difference is that simplified uses pinyin to teach while traditional uses zhuyin. If you need to complete a language requirement for your major I would suggest you take Chinese even though it’s simplified because you seem to have a interest in learning Chinese.</p>
<p>I will still intend on majoring in Chinese.</p>
<p>I think I will hire a personal tutor to instruct me in traditional. I am already familiar with the system of zhuyin (personally I find it far superior to pinyin).</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>@Kironide I agree, zhuyin makes much more sense (I’m not even from Taiwan, I’m from China)</p>
<p>simplified</p>
<p>Like you, I grew up learning traditional and zhuyin. I was kind of disappointed when I found out that UW uses simplified and pinyin 
I have trouble reading simplified as opposed to traditional, and when I read pinyin, I have an ‘invisible’ zhuyin annotation next to the words.</p>
<p>Get used to it; start practicing with simplified and pinyin. It’ll make the classes go by faster, but just retain your traditional/zhuyin knowledge. :)</p>