Learning Mandarin – Difficulties and Opportunities
Mandarin language studies are problematic. Mostly because Mandarin is very different from other languages that people inside of west have aimed to get to grips with before hoping to learn Chinese, not because learning Mandarin is much harder. Mandarin is strange in any ways. The writing system is obviously completely different. You need to no alphabet as being the one that Germanic and Latin derivates have. Instead a picture defines every word; or rather a series of what is called strokes. For example, three stokes that together make a square means mouth, one combination of strokes that sort of depicts a woman holding a kid means mother and as a consequence on. But the differences don’t end on that point. The grammar is largely made up in the is called fibers. For example; adding a syllable pronounced ma after a sentence turns it proper question, adding guo after a sentence means that that it happens in items on the market. Combining these basic examples; you go shanghai guo ma? Communicates the question: a person have gone to Shanghai? The differences are however much more explicit that these. Even the sounds of spoken Chinese are completely different from western counterparts.
Chinese spoken test is not only based on syllables as western words are. Utilized for mother in English is just 6 different sounds noted by each character; M, O, T, H, E and R. In Chinese there is two syllables, not four characters, ma and ma. The twist is that “mama” can be pronounced in twenty-five various ways. Each of 2 syllables, ma and ma, can be pronounced with 5 different tones, creating a total matrix of 5 times 5 possibilities, and 1 means mother. The tones are called tones but are generally not tones because A minor or G, they are pitch modulation. Quite tone is a slightly steady high set up. The second is a rising pitch. 3rd tone goes down and then up. The fourth is a sharp decline in pitch from high to low. The fifth is called the neutral tone will not not actually have a modulation form.
All that sounds bloody difficult, as well as is, at least at first. Exactly how to speak chinese do you best go about arriving to grips with it? Because of course moment has come possible. In fact I know one lovely French girl called Julie, her Chinese is better than her English. Additionally know a very talented German videographer that has lived in China only for three years; he often searches for the English word to explain something and upward saying it Chinese. Basically, I would argue, that Chinese isn’t so much bloody difficult as it’s not bloody different.
