With China’s economy growing at an unbelievable rate, anyone who can communicate in standard Chinese (Mandarin) is set to enjoy a huge advantage in the international world of business in the future. China is also a big country offering a wealth of exciting travel experiences, and if you know some Chinese it will help you [...]

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The Chinese language, which is a communication system used by the Chinese people on a daily basis to accomplish various goals in life, unavoidably carries many features reflecting some of the commonly held social beliefs in their culture. Culture can be roughly defined as socially learned patterns of behavior and interpretive practices, in which language [...]

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The Chinese character for “cloud” was written as in oracle-bone script and in bronze script, both of which have a curvy line in the bottom somewhat resembling a piece of floating cloud. However, after Chinese script was standardized after the Han dynasty, various Chinese graphemes can be analyzed in terms of strokes, i.e., lines, dots, [...]

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The earliest fully developed Chinese writing that we know of today is the inscriptions on turtle shells and oxen shoulder blades, commonly known as oracle-bone script that appeared in the mid-second millennium BCE during the Late Shang dynasty.
Unlike a phonographic writing such as that of English where each letter of the alphabet encodes a phone, [...]

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Chinese Morphology is the study of words and word-making. Its goal is to understand the meaning in the relationships between words and the ways in which they are expressed, including how grammatical relationships are marked in different languages. For example, plurality is explicitly marked by an -s on English nouns, e.g., book as a singular [...]

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Those with a grasp of (Mandarin) Chinese will have a cutting edge over others as China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and in the times to come, Mandarin will exert an influence that nobody will be able to ignore.
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The plethora of linguistic diversity of Chinese languages in the south and one unified Mandarin in the north might be related to the geographical characteristics of China’s north and south. “Mandarin dialects,” are spread across the Yellow Plain and the Loess Plateau which has a flat terrain that promotes travel and, consequently, easy contact among [...]

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Chinese, as a language name in English, refers to the Sinitic subgroup of Sino-Tibetan languages in Asia. But it can be translated into various Chinese nouns for the language encompassing many different ideas depending on the context.
First of all, Chinese can be translated as zhongwen generally referring to the language. Zhongwen is also the right [...]

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Many dialects are spoken in China. Mandarin is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken in most of the northern, central, and western parts of China. However, Mandarin, as it is known to the world, refers to standard Mandarin (or modern standard Chinese) which is based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing. Standard Mandarin [...]

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Chinese is the language of over one billion speakers. Several dialect families of Chinese exist, each in turn consisting of many dialects. Although different dialect families are often mutually unintelligible, systematic correspondences (e.g., in lexicon and syntax) exist among them, making it easy for speakers of one dialect to pick up another relatively quickly. The [...]

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