Thursday, January 10, 2013

中国?


The art of study Chinese is hard; to understand this subject to have to be able to connect sounds to characters and those characters to the English meaning.   That jump from words on a piece of paper to word your teacher is saying to you.

To write “the spring festival is china’s most important holiday” you would  write “春节是中国最重要的节日。 now the sounds are “chun jie shi zhong gou zui zhong yao de jie ri”. Sounds pretty crazy right?  Well when you look at their grammar Chinese write in a very different way.

They always put the time first when writing or saying a sentence; if there isn’t a time then you go subject.  So an example would be “ma ming writes Chinese’s characters very well.”  马明写汉字写得很好.” The sounds for this are “ma ming xi han zi xi de hen hao.” See ma ming is a name so he is the subject next it says he writes characters, so action final it says very well; Describing how he writes these characters.

This language has two ways of writing it both in a simple or traditional from.  So for me to write my name in the simple from is 冯凯蒂。While in the traditional from it would be more strokes. Traditional is more for a formal occasion, than normal life so it could be the learned writing of the Chinese you may say.  

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