Like the Korean and Japanese written language?...a gradual
introduction/change...i.e. the old symbolic writing is still used
until people get the hang of it.
I think it looks much nicer, less cluttered and will be much
easier to learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
The advantage of retaining characters is that when language
undergoes natural sound changes over time, we will still be able to
read them.
In the short term, a phonetic script is always good. It helps to
lessen the load of learning thousands of characters. In the long
term (as in history archiving, scholarly works), languages that use
the phonetic script always ends up looking like another language in
itself and requires "translation".
The Korean and the Japanese system of writing both have their
limitation as sound changes over thousands of years.
You can read up on the net too that the current Korean
language is morphophonemic instead of pure
phonemic one. Simply put, Korean looks like a
phonetic alphabet to us, but actually it still does not
correspond 1:1 in terms of the symbols and the sound.
The Japanese language is not a phonetic one but a syllabic
one. The syllabic system works for Japanese language but
will not work for either Korean or Chinese because the Japanese
phonetic inventory is far far much simpler than either both of
them.
I support the use of characters versus phonetic characters for
Chinese.