Mandarin is increasing in populiarity because of the China is getting stronger and stronger and take a more and more important role in the world, also beacause of its long history and and exotic culture. Some people think mandarin is the most difficult language to master. Well, as an experienced and prefessional mandarin teacher, I'm presenting few points here to preove that mandarin is not that difficult.
1.Pronunciation Like other languages, Chinese also has a alphabit whoese pronunciation is gererally very similar to the world language English. The only difference is that Chinese is a tonal language and it has four tones which is not so hard to master through practice 2. Characters and words Chinese syllable is represent by characters and some people may think that it's hard to write Chinese characters.Well, actually you don't need to know how to write Chinese characters if you just want to speak Chinese. You just need to recoganize them, but Chinese calligraphy is a kind of art and a lot of foreigner may be very interested in learning it. Since Chinese syllables are represent by characters and each characters may never change, so Chinese words doesn't have any changes,such nouns from singular to plural and verbs change their forms in difference tenses and so on. 3. Grammar Chinese grammar is a lot easier English and many other languages for there's no tenses, no changes of verb forms in Chinese which is acheived by adding a specific particle(character) to the sentence. So you just need to memorize the function of some specific particles. You don't have to change the form the verb in every sentence.In Chinese, you just need to know one particle for each grammar point. Here's the school I'm working in: www.hichinaschool.com Trust me, it's not so difficult to learn mandarin. Re: Mandarin is not so difficult to learn
Posted by: Trien (IP Logged)
Date: August 05, 2012 10:26AM
1. "Chinese also has a alphabit whoese pronunciation is gererally very similar to the world language English."
Your English is horrible. Learn English first before taking challenges in other languages. Your thought is wrong: Chinese has NO alphabet. Pinyin is only AN APPROXIMATION of the sounds of Mandarin via the Latin script, which really isn't accurate at all! 2. Chinese syllable is represent by characters and some people may think that it's hard to write Chinese characters.Well, actually you don't need to know how to write Chinese characters if you just want to speak Chinese. Of course, you do: Most people IN CHINA will not know PINYIN! If you can't pronounce the words correctly, then you WILL need to KNOW how to write the characters! You just need to recoganize them, but Chinese calligraphy is a kind of art and a lot of foreigner may be very interested in learning it. You DO NOT need to learn calligrapy. calligraphy is an art form. All you need to know is a few simple strokes, which Mao and his communists have drastically reduced from Traditional Chinese, so it won't be hard to learn,but that's not true. They just don't want to be using the same writing as the people from Taiwan. But the simpler strokes can't tell you the history of the characters, so it's really Since Chinese syllables are represent by characters and each characters may never change, so Chinese words doesn't have any changes,such nouns from singular to plural and verbs change their forms in difference tenses and so on. WRONG! You cannot use the conjugation of verbs in other European languages and compare that to Chinese. Your grammar is difficult DUE to those inflections! Chinese might not have inflections, but that does NOT make it an EASIER language to learn!!! Chinese grammar is a lot easier English and many other languages for there's no tenses, no changes of verb forms in Chinese which is acheived by adding a specific particle(character) to the sentence. So you just need to memorize the function of some specific particles. You don't have to change the form the verb in every sentence.In Chinese, you just need to know one particle for each grammar point. WRONG WRONG and WRONG again. There ARE tenses in Chinese: all languages have Past, present, future, etc... You add particles and other words related to the verb and connect them to the verb, and that changes the whole picture. The MAIN verb doesn't change, but you will need to add other function words to make it work. You might or might not need to add another verb to the sentence to make it correct. you just need to know one particle for each grammar point.: What do you mean? What particle? What grammar point? From the following, tell me which is a verb, which is not and how is it translated into English: 我几天之前约你出来一齐去过购物啦,你忘记了吗?: Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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