This document provides an overview of the Chinese language and culture. It discusses that China has the world's largest population and that Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken first language. While Chinese dialects differ in pronunciation, they use the same characters. It also summarizes that Chinese characters originated from pictographs and there are over 50,000 total characters, though about 2,000 are needed for basic literacy. Pinyin is used to write Chinese with the Roman alphabet and tones distinguish word meanings. Sentence structure in Chinese is also simpler than in English.
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This is aimed to teach Korean from basics to people who are interested.
This lesson focuses on Korean alphabets, character placement and how to write your names, or any word basically.
This is aimed to teach Korean from basics to people who are interested.
This lesson focuses on Korean alphabets, character placement and how to write your names, or any word basically.
Demystifying Mandarin - Learn Chinese by Hutong SchoolHutong School
Jan Wostyn, Director International Relations of Hutong School, will give you a bird's eye view of the fascinating Chinese language, zooming in on different aspects of a language which many Westerners believe to be the hardest language in the world, until they actually get started, and discover the surprisingly simplicity of Chinese compared to most European languages.
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Mandarin Chinese - Intro, How to Learn, and DemystifyingBeleza Chan
Is Mandarin one of the most difficult languages to learn? Characters and tones can be seem intimidating at first, but it is a much simpler language than it meets the eye.
The language learning techniques mean the author’s method of applying the linguistic methods to convey meaning. However, various language techniques can be related to sentence patterns, intonation, word selection, and so on. You can use the language techniques and elements found throughout the story
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Chinese versus English
Introduction
There is no single language that is used in China, however, there are various versions that involves Wu language, Cantonese and Taiwanese languages. However, the Mandarin of the northern region is the mother tongue to almost 70 percent of the Chinese people and therefore accepted as the knowledge for all the Chinese people. Knowledge is a language that comprises various domains. This involves; first, Phonology, this is a system in which organization of sounds is achieved. Second, Morphology; these are elements that are meaningful and how they have been organized to form words. Third, Syntax; these are the various ways of sentence formation (Lin, P.3). Chinese and English tend languages to employ the above domains in there structures to come up with to come up with effective communication. This research therefore looks at the morphological, phonological and syntactical domains in order to show the similarities and differences within this two languages. Comment by Jennifer Haan: Use MLA citation for formatting throughout
Similarities between English and Chinese Languages
English and Chinese languages are similar in terms of grammar. In Chinese language, a simple sentence structure comprises of the subject, a predicate and also an object. For instance: Comment by Jennifer Haan: Verb form
In English “I wash my hands”
In Chinese “我 Wo (I) 洗 xi 手 shou.”
This makes Chinese grammar appear somehow simpler as compared to English Grammr. For example, the Chinese language doesn’t contain all the various forms that are based on singular/plural (Liang, Para. 3)
The syllables of the Chinese language comprises of three features. The tone, initial and final sound financial. The initial Consonants make up the initial sound while the final file is made up of at minimum one vowel. Some of the syllables contain only the initial or the final sound. Chinese language is composed of 21 initial sounds while final sounds are 35 in number with 413 various combinations? If the four mandarin Chinese are applied, then we are able to get 1600 unique syllables Comment by Jennifer Haan: Word choice
The pronunciations that are close to English are numerous with many words displaying the initial sound. There are many examples of within the initial sounds such as b, p, and f among others that are similar to the English Letters. The only difference is that, from the table, English words are pronounced with a stronger health.
Both the Chinese and English languages have similar word order in their sentence structures. For instance, the two sentences that have been given below have a similar meaning when written either in Chinese or English. They march each other in terms of word by word. Comment by Jennifer Haan: Word choice
他 是 个 好 学生!
He is a good student!
Both English and Chinese contain relatively very few inflections. In case there are inflections that are present, then they are relatively simple. The semantic affixes are used in both ...
This easy to follow guide from the team at One Hour Translation is a must read for anyone considering translating their content into Chinese. The appeal of the Chinese market is obvious: the country is the second fastest growing economy globally, and the world's largest exporter. Over 1.2 billion people speak Chinese, or 16% of the world's population, however there are hundreds of varieties of the language spoken. Most people are familiar with Mandarin, however more than 300,000,000 Chinese speak other dialects, and then there are the writing varieties to contend with. One Hour Translation are localization experts, and this guide will help you to choose the right dialect for your next project.
Basic Chinese (Mandarin) Language Course101_languages
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2. About Chinese, and China
China-World’s most populated country
(1,338,299,500 people)
Chinese-Not a single language. (Many dialects)
All Chinese dialects are spoken differently, but use
the same characters.
We will be learning Mandarin Chinese, which is the
most spoken dialect, and the most spoken first
language in the world. (836 million speakers)
Chinese isn’t difficult, IT’S JUST DIFFERENT!
3. About Chinese Characters
Chinese is written with a system of symbols or characters,
instead of an alphabet like English
There are around 50,000 characters total, used to write
Chinese, however many of these are ancient, and no longer
used, and many are created by companies for a specific
purpose, and are also rarely used.
Around 2,000 characters are needed for basic proficiency.
A well educated adult is expected to know 5,000-10,000
characters.
There are two basic types of Chinese characters used today,
traditional and simplified. They are each used in different
areas. In the Chinese program, you will be taught simplified
characters.
There are advantages to both. Simplified characters are much
easier to write, though traditional characters are more
pictographic.
5. Chinese Character Development
Every Chinese Character, can trace it’s history back
to a pictograph from ancient China
Shan (mountain)
Knowing the original pictograph can be a great strategy for remembering Chinese
characters
6. Other types of Chinese characters.
Radicals-Radicals are part of a character, and are used to
symbolize an entire category of words. Often radicals are
combined with a component that shows pronunciation.
=Speech Radical
Ex. 说话语
=Water radical
Ex. 汁冰游泳
Ex. 妈, ma = mother. This character contains the component 女,
which means female, and the component 马, which is
pronounced ma.
Abstract Characters - Some characters are abstractly
represented, or symbolized.
Ex. 一二三 =1,2,3,or 上 and 下=, above and below
Combinations- Sometimes certain simple characters combine,
and also combine their meanings.
Ex. 明=Sun+moon (Bright) , or 森=tree + tree + tree (forest)
休, rest- 人, (man) + 术, tree
7. Tones
Tones are used in Chinese, and many other
languages, but not in English. When using tones, we
pronounce the word the same, but change the way
we inflect it.
There are four tones in Chinese
High tone 妈-ma (mother)
Rising Tone 麻-ma (rough)
Low Tone 马-ma (horse)
Falling Tone 骂-ma (scold)
8. Pinyin
Pinyin is the Chinese romanization system, or how we write
Chinese with English letters.
In the beginning of the Chinese program we will be using a lot
of pinyin, along with characters, before more characters are
introduced.
There are a very limited number of Pinyin syllables
Pinyin is also used for typing Chinese on the computer.
When writing pinyin, tone marks are also often used.
There are a very limited number of syllables in Chinese,
(around 400). If you multiply this by 4, for the tones, you get a
little over 1200 syllables, which is a very small number
considering this is an entire language.
This means many syllables have multiple meanings.
It is preferred to use characters, because each character only
has one meaning.
9.
10. Sentence Structure
The Chinese sentence structure is very different from
that of English.
我今天早上十点,去图书馆看书跟我妈妈。
I today morning ten o’clock, go library look books, with
my mom.
The sentence structure is also very simple compared
to English in many cases. Chinese has very few
extra words.
我要去上点。This literally means, I want go store. If we
wanted to say this in English, It would read I want to
go to the store. There are a lot of small extra words
in that sentence that aren’t used in Chinese.
11. Thank You For Watching!
感谢你的收看!
We hope you will take Chinese with us next year at Bethlehem
Central Middle School.
你们明年应该上中文课!