Friday, December 12, 2008
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
learn chinese,welcome to chinesetime.
Hello everybody,First of all, welcome to chinesetime, i hope we can help you on Chinese learning or anything related China and you can learn something from here!Many people told us they feel hard to learn Chinese because of the 4 different tones, the complicated characters, the grammar... or they don't have time to learn Chinese because they need work, do business trip, attend meetings... or it's hard to find qulified teachers, hard to find good books... or they don't have chances to go to China...We (http://www.chinesetime.cn/) want to find a solution to help those people, we implmented a way which combine the offline school with online self-study courses and online tutor-led courses. By this solution, people can learn Chinese anytime and anywhere, doesn't need go to the "real" school, and even you only have 10minutes, you still can learn Chinese. The class schedule is totally decided by you, you don't need worry about you don't have time go to the school or break the studying because of the business trip... In Shanghai we also have two local schools and provide on site teaching, our schools are located near zhongshan park and People Square.The courses are well designed by our experienced teachers, made by audios, videos, images, explanations,tests,progress reports..., It can help you prepare/review/practice what you learned before/after the tutor-led classes so you won't forget what you learned. Currently we have finished 《Practical Chinese》 3 books, 《300 Basic Chinese characters》3 books,《Pinyin Course》 2 books, and working on like 《Travel Chinese》,《Business Chinese》...Register on our site (http://www.chinesetime.cn/) you can get 1 week free access to all those courses and 1 hour free tutor-led course. After you booked the tutor-led course, in 24 hours, a teacher will assigned to you.All our teachers are qulified and experienced, they all graduated from the universities in the major of "Teaching Chinese As Second Language", our school director(http://www.chinesetime.cn/tabid/141/st/teacher/Default.aspx) has 30 years education experience, had taught Chinese in America for 8 years. She was hornored twice by the China Goverment for her works in teaching Chinese.We also set up forums here in Xing and on our own web site (http://www.chinesetime.cn/forum/), anyone have questions on Chinese language or China related questions can ask on the forum, we have moderators to answer the questions.We also build study tools like multimedia dictionary (serveral basic characters even has videos), pronunciation lab, placement test...all free for use, you can check here http://www.chinesetime.cn/studytools/We are really willing to help anyone who wants to learn chinese or is learning Chinese. Any questions or feedbacks are welcome!
It is time to learn chinese.
It is time to learn chinese.
Why Learn ChineseOver twenty percent of world's population speaks Chinese. Most Chinese speakers are in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia but Chinese all over the world speak Chinese and carry Chinese traditions and culture. Chinese culture and ancient wisdom is inspiring. Understanding the Chinese Language can be a huge advantage in getting closer to the culture, doing business with Chinese and traveling in China.China is experiencing the fastest growing economy the world has ever seen. Strong business relationships with Chinese business partners can insure success. Being able to communicate in Chinese and understanding the local way of life will make the business and personal trip to China more fruitful and pleasant.The Best Way To Learn ChineseLearning a second language is totally different from learning the first language. As a non-Chinese speaker, it is never too early or too late to start learning.Learning a totally new kind of language quickly and effectively requires a trained and experienced teacher fluent in both languages: Chinese and the learner's first language. The teacher also need to have comprehensive understanding and respect of both culture: Chinese culture and the learner's culture.
About Chinese Languageand CultureChinese culture and philosophy are unparalleled sources of wisdom and inspiration. Qigong, Yinyang, Confucius, and Tao Te Ching are just the examples for the commonly known terms of Chinese culture and philosophy. Learning Chinese culture and philosophy will open a new door to our life. The spiritual inspiration will lead us toward spiritual maturity. Enlightened, we will achieve more spiritually and socially. A large number to people are learning Chinesebecause they love the culture and want to be part of it.
China, as a rising star of the world economy, has shown the world the enormous economic potential with a demanding open market. More and more investors all over the world are attracted to this market. The first step of doing business in China is to understand the language and culture.
We provide learning and support service for people interested in learning Chineselanguage and culture, and for people whose success depends on understanding the Chinese way of life.
We help you learn to understand Chinese cultureand communicate in the Chinese language. Our services can change the way you see the world.
Learn the language and culture of the future.
Why Learn ChineseOver twenty percent of world's population speaks Chinese. Most Chinese speakers are in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia but Chinese all over the world speak Chinese and carry Chinese traditions and culture. Chinese culture and ancient wisdom is inspiring. Understanding the Chinese Language can be a huge advantage in getting closer to the culture, doing business with Chinese and traveling in China.China is experiencing the fastest growing economy the world has ever seen. Strong business relationships with Chinese business partners can insure success. Being able to communicate in Chinese and understanding the local way of life will make the business and personal trip to China more fruitful and pleasant.The Best Way To Learn ChineseLearning a second language is totally different from learning the first language. As a non-Chinese speaker, it is never too early or too late to start learning.Learning a totally new kind of language quickly and effectively requires a trained and experienced teacher fluent in both languages: Chinese and the learner's first language. The teacher also need to have comprehensive understanding and respect of both culture: Chinese culture and the learner's culture.
About Chinese Languageand CultureChinese culture and philosophy are unparalleled sources of wisdom and inspiration. Qigong, Yinyang, Confucius, and Tao Te Ching are just the examples for the commonly known terms of Chinese culture and philosophy. Learning Chinese culture and philosophy will open a new door to our life. The spiritual inspiration will lead us toward spiritual maturity. Enlightened, we will achieve more spiritually and socially. A large number to people are learning Chinesebecause they love the culture and want to be part of it.
China, as a rising star of the world economy, has shown the world the enormous economic potential with a demanding open market. More and more investors all over the world are attracted to this market. The first step of doing business in China is to understand the language and culture.
We provide learning and support service for people interested in learning Chineselanguage and culture, and for people whose success depends on understanding the Chinese way of life.
We help you learn to understand Chinese cultureand communicate in the Chinese language. Our services can change the way you see the world.
Learn the language and culture of the future.
Study Mandarin Chinese in Shanghai
Study Mandarin Chinese in Shanghai
When riding the blazingly fast maglev train away from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport, it becomes apparent that China has arrived as a world superpower, and much like the 267.8 mph train that opened in 2003, Shanghai is the city that brought China here. One need only look at the prolific skyscrapers of the Pudong district with its Oriental Pearl Tower and Jin Mao Tower, two of the world’s tallest manmade structures, or Donghai Bridge, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, to know that Shanghai is among the world’s most modern cities.
A far cry from the ancient imperial histories of Beijing or Xian, Shanghai is representative of the new China. Located where the Yangtze River Delta and the Pacific Ocean meet, Shanghai, which literally translates as “on the sea,” was historically a small fishing village. Today, Shanghai is the most populated city in the world’s most populated country. The seeds of modern day China were planted throughout Shanghai: birthplace of the founder of the Chinese Republic Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, location of the first congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, and hometown of basketball superstar and China’s unofficial international ambassador, Yao Ming.
During the late Qing dynasty, Shanghai’s strategic location as the gateway to the rich interior of the Yangtze River, an area which produces the vast amounts of food necessary to feed all of China, made it the envy of international powers looking to trade with China. With imperial power weakening in the mid-19th century, Shanghai became the playground of foreign imperialists, who brought with them industry, Western finance, and modernization, the vestiges of which can still be seen in the architecture of the Bund and the French Concession.
By the time of the Kuomintang Republic, Shanghai was the world’s third greatest financial center behind only New York and London. With the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai became largely impoverished due to heavy taxation from the central government as well as the purging of “bourgeois elements.” After the economic reforms of the late 20th century, Shanghai has led China’s economic resurgence with a GDP that dwarfs that of all other regions except for Hong Kong.
Shanghai is a potent political and cultural force as well. Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin was first the mayor of Shanghai. The city served as the breeding ground for the right-leaning “Shanghai-clique” which was fiercely critical of the Cultural Revolution and highly influential in the recent reforms. Even with its modernist tendencies, Shanghai is a bastion of traditional culture with famous schools of the arts such as the Songjiang School, the Huating School, and the Shanghai School. However, Shanghai’s most famous cultural school still may be the Chin Woo Athletic School of Wushu created by China’s most famous modern martial arts hero, Huo Yuanjia.
Despite its cosmopolitan character, Shanghai will seduce you with its intimacy. Whether by taking in a scenic view of the historic Bund from a boat ride along the Huangpu river or savoring the flavor explosion of Shanghai’s famous xiao long bao, (“little dragon buns”), Shanghai will leave a lasting impression.
To live and study in Shanghai is to have your fingers at the pulse of modern China. More than anything, one comes away with a greater understanding of the nation’s recent past and bright future. As Shanghai races into the 21st century, the rest of the country is hitching along on her coattails. We hope you come along for the ride. Don’t blink or you might miss it!
http://www.chinesetime.cn learn chinese shanghai or online everywhere.
When riding the blazingly fast maglev train away from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport, it becomes apparent that China has arrived as a world superpower, and much like the 267.8 mph train that opened in 2003, Shanghai is the city that brought China here. One need only look at the prolific skyscrapers of the Pudong district with its Oriental Pearl Tower and Jin Mao Tower, two of the world’s tallest manmade structures, or Donghai Bridge, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, to know that Shanghai is among the world’s most modern cities.
A far cry from the ancient imperial histories of Beijing or Xian, Shanghai is representative of the new China. Located where the Yangtze River Delta and the Pacific Ocean meet, Shanghai, which literally translates as “on the sea,” was historically a small fishing village. Today, Shanghai is the most populated city in the world’s most populated country. The seeds of modern day China were planted throughout Shanghai: birthplace of the founder of the Chinese Republic Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, location of the first congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, and hometown of basketball superstar and China’s unofficial international ambassador, Yao Ming.
During the late Qing dynasty, Shanghai’s strategic location as the gateway to the rich interior of the Yangtze River, an area which produces the vast amounts of food necessary to feed all of China, made it the envy of international powers looking to trade with China. With imperial power weakening in the mid-19th century, Shanghai became the playground of foreign imperialists, who brought with them industry, Western finance, and modernization, the vestiges of which can still be seen in the architecture of the Bund and the French Concession.
By the time of the Kuomintang Republic, Shanghai was the world’s third greatest financial center behind only New York and London. With the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai became largely impoverished due to heavy taxation from the central government as well as the purging of “bourgeois elements.” After the economic reforms of the late 20th century, Shanghai has led China’s economic resurgence with a GDP that dwarfs that of all other regions except for Hong Kong.
Shanghai is a potent political and cultural force as well. Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin was first the mayor of Shanghai. The city served as the breeding ground for the right-leaning “Shanghai-clique” which was fiercely critical of the Cultural Revolution and highly influential in the recent reforms. Even with its modernist tendencies, Shanghai is a bastion of traditional culture with famous schools of the arts such as the Songjiang School, the Huating School, and the Shanghai School. However, Shanghai’s most famous cultural school still may be the Chin Woo Athletic School of Wushu created by China’s most famous modern martial arts hero, Huo Yuanjia.
Despite its cosmopolitan character, Shanghai will seduce you with its intimacy. Whether by taking in a scenic view of the historic Bund from a boat ride along the Huangpu river or savoring the flavor explosion of Shanghai’s famous xiao long bao, (“little dragon buns”), Shanghai will leave a lasting impression.
To live and study in Shanghai is to have your fingers at the pulse of modern China. More than anything, one comes away with a greater understanding of the nation’s recent past and bright future. As Shanghai races into the 21st century, the rest of the country is hitching along on her coattails. We hope you come along for the ride. Don’t blink or you might miss it!
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Friday, November 28, 2008
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Is Chinese Really So Hard To Learn As A Second Language?
Many foreign friends of mine are complaining to me that Chinese is so hard to learn: the ridiculously difficult writing system, the confusing four tones, the extensive system of measure words, so a lot of things to memorize… It seems that I should thank God just for being born Chinese. Is Chinese really that hard to learn as a foreign language?
Actually, I don’t think so. Chinese grammar is much simpler if compared to that of the European languages. English speakers sometimes complain that languages like Spanish have a complicated grammar (masculine and feminine genders, verb conjugations, etc), whereas the Chinese language has little or no bound morphology and there are no grammatical paradigms to memorize. Each word has a fixed and single form: verbs do not take prefixes or suffixes showing the tense or the person, number, or gender of the subject. Nouns do not take prefixes or suffixes showing their number or their case. I’m not trying to tell you that Chinese has no grammar; what I means is that due to the lack of inflectional morphology, Chinese grammar is mainly concerned with how words are arranged to form meaningful sentences. Plus each Chinese character pronounced in one syllable, that’s why when watching Chinese movies, you find that a few words can be translated into a syllable mapping in the English subtitle.
Probably, you would say that the above is far from enough to convince you; okay, I’ve got one more encouraging and authoritative evidence for you. A couple of days ago I fortunately came across one piece of inspiring news when reading Beijing Times: Less than 1,000 Chinese characters allow you to read 90% of the current Chinese publication, according to a survey conducted by the Education Ministry and Language Commission of China. The findings of this survey is claimed to be based on 900 million characters used in more than 8.9 million files chosen from newspapers, magazines, the Internet and television. Nowadays, the Chinese media is using fewer characters, and to understand 90 percent of the content in publications, you need only to know about 900 of around 50,000 individual characters that are made up of Written Chinese. On the other hand, how many words are there in English? Almost 100,000 and it’s still on the rise. One important reason for this is that Chinese characters, unlike English words, are mainly to represent meaning, not pronunciation, and what’s more, many characters are archaic and some found only once in the whole history of the written language, such as the names of people or places. An average Chinese university graduate may know only about 6,000.
Now, would those all above relieve you a little bit in your Chinese language study? Hope so, but do not misinterpret this: I am not in any intention to convince you that Chinese is very easy to learn or other languages like English are much harder; what I mean is that Chinese is really not that difficult as you imagined or heard about, it’s just different from your mother tongue, but difference does not necessarily mean difficulty, right? And that hard Chinese idea won’t be of any help in your study. Trust yourself, once that fear factor is overcome, the language is actually not that hard to learn. Good luck with your Chinese language study.
Many foreign friends of mine are complaining to me that Chinese is so hard to learn: the ridiculously difficult writing system, the confusing four tones, the extensive system of measure words, so a lot of things to memorize… It seems that I should thank God just for being born Chinese. Is Chinese really that hard to learn as a foreign language?
Actually, I don’t think so. Chinese grammar is much simpler if compared to that of the European languages. English speakers sometimes complain that languages like Spanish have a complicated grammar (masculine and feminine genders, verb conjugations, etc), whereas the Chinese language has little or no bound morphology and there are no grammatical paradigms to memorize. Each word has a fixed and single form: verbs do not take prefixes or suffixes showing the tense or the person, number, or gender of the subject. Nouns do not take prefixes or suffixes showing their number or their case. I’m not trying to tell you that Chinese has no grammar; what I means is that due to the lack of inflectional morphology, Chinese grammar is mainly concerned with how words are arranged to form meaningful sentences. Plus each Chinese character pronounced in one syllable, that’s why when watching Chinese movies, you find that a few words can be translated into a syllable mapping in the English subtitle.
Probably, you would say that the above is far from enough to convince you; okay, I’ve got one more encouraging and authoritative evidence for you. A couple of days ago I fortunately came across one piece of inspiring news when reading Beijing Times: Less than 1,000 Chinese characters allow you to read 90% of the current Chinese publication, according to a survey conducted by the Education Ministry and Language Commission of China. The findings of this survey is claimed to be based on 900 million characters used in more than 8.9 million files chosen from newspapers, magazines, the Internet and television. Nowadays, the Chinese media is using fewer characters, and to understand 90 percent of the content in publications, you need only to know about 900 of around 50,000 individual characters that are made up of Written Chinese. On the other hand, how many words are there in English? Almost 100,000 and it’s still on the rise. One important reason for this is that Chinese characters, unlike English words, are mainly to represent meaning, not pronunciation, and what’s more, many characters are archaic and some found only once in the whole history of the written language, such as the names of people or places. An average Chinese university graduate may know only about 6,000.
Now, would those all above relieve you a little bit in your Chinese language study? Hope so, but do not misinterpret this: I am not in any intention to convince you that Chinese is very easy to learn or other languages like English are much harder; what I mean is that Chinese is really not that difficult as you imagined or heard about, it’s just different from your mother tongue, but difference does not necessarily mean difficulty, right? And that hard Chinese idea won’t be of any help in your study. Trust yourself, once that fear factor is overcome, the language is actually not that hard to learn. Good luck with your Chinese language study.
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The distribution of Chinese language
The distribution of Chinese language
| Main Chinese dialects | Where spoken |
| Guan (Mandarin) | In the northern, central and western regions. Includes Bejing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, Henan Province, Shandong Province, Shaanxi Province, Jilin Province and Inner Mongolia among others. North Mandarin, as found in Beijing, is the basis of the modern standard language (c. 885 million). |
| Wu | In the east-central region at Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and parts of Anhui Province. It includes Shanghainese (c. 90 million). |
| Yue (Cantonese) | In the south at Guangdong Province including Hong Kong and Macau, and parts of Guangxi Province (c. 71 million). |
| Min | In the south-east at Fujian Province, Hainan Province and parts of Zhejiang Province and Guangdong Province. It includes Taiwanese (c. 70 million). |
| Xiang | In the south-central region at Hunan Province and parts of Guangxi Province (c. 36 million). |
| Hakka | Widespread, especially between Fujian Province and Guangxi Province (c. 34 million). |
| Gan | In the north at Shanxi Province and parts of Hebei Province (c. 31 million). |
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