Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Recognition of Chinese Language In Early age

As we know,nowadays Chinese has been noted as the second internasional language after English. That's why Chinese should be taught to children in early age to make children love Chinese. Before understanding further, let's understand first what the true meaning of Chinese.
Chinese (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文) is a part of language family of the "Sino",Tibet language. Abput 1/5 of the world population use one of the form of Chinese as a means of communication,so if it's considered as one language. Chinese is a language which is used by the most people in the world. Chinese is an official language in Singapore and one of the six official language in U.N.
A main difference between Chinese concept about language and Western concept is that Chinese people differ the writing and the oral. The difference is widened to the difference in writing word and saying word. There are many kinds of oral Chinese, in which Chinese is the most important and outstanding.
Chinese letters are unchangable letters though the way they are said is different. So eventhough "one" in Chinese is "yi", in Kantonese is "yat" and in Hokkien is "tist/cit", they all come from one word of the same Chinese and they still use one same letter. The complex interaction between the written Chinese and the oral can be described trough Kantonese. Kantonese has a speciality compared with the other traditional languages non Chinese because having standard writing form which is used widely. Besides the language above, there are types of other Chinese that are said as Hakka or khek and Tiochiu language.

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