Chinese is spoken by over 1.3 billion people worldwide. But it’s famously difficult to start learning. Mandarin, for example, has five tones (meaning pronunciation is very important). And, when it comes to writing, there are over 50,000 chinese characters in the dictionary – although you ...
Northern Mandarin-People living in the Northeast provinces, Northern China, and Beijing speak northern mandarin. Mandarin has four tones that are level, rising, high-rising, and falling. These tones help in identifying the words that have the same consonants and vowels but different meanings. It ...
Mandarin Chinese is the most commonly used language.It is taught in all schools and it is the medium of the government.And today people across China are encouraged to use Putonghua in offices and public places.Spoken Chinese is a tonal language,with four tones in addition to indi...
Cantonese still has many features of Ancient Chinese, including the use of the final consonants. It has six tones and while it has fewer initial consonants, it has several syllables that are distinctly different. The majority of Chinese immigrants before the middle of the 20th century spoke Canto...
The predominant dialect of Xiang is influenced by Mandarin Chinese. This language is divided into New Xiang, spoken in the capital of Hunan, Changsha, and Old Xiang, used in other Hunan areas. The old variant of Xiang has some features in common with the Wu language-five tones and more di...
word can take on completely different meanings depending on which of the four tones in Mandarin is used (or six tones in Cantonese!). Pinyin, a Romanization system for the Chinese characters, makes it easier to "read" Chinese, but you'll need to leave your English pronunciation habits ...
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last 20 years. It is no longer unusual to come across a “wairen” (foreigner) in Mainland China. Yet, many students keep having problems when it comes to speaking Chinese, and this is mainly due to an aspect often considered “dramatic” from a Westerner’s perspective: Chinese tones. ...
This lesson is about asking “how old are you?” question in Chinese. There are different ways of asking the question “how old are you?” in Chinese, it depends on the age of the person you are talking to. Asking a child is different from asking a person of your age or an elderly...
Mandarin Chinese has4 different tones. The first tone is a high level tone, the second tone rises in pitch, the third tone falls in pitch and then rises again and the fourth tone falls in pitch. Saying a word or character with a different pitch contour can change its meaning completely....