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Chinese Learning
Chinese Learning
Created by joyce at 2011-9-15 4:12:00; Last updated by fabiowzgogo at 2013-5-7 4:27:00
Pronunciation for some basic Chinese characters The following table is about pronunciation for some basic Chinese characters: English words Chinese characters Pronunciation... »View details
Homophones
Homophones
Created by samshen at 2011-10-19 4:23:00; Last updated by samshen at 2013-4-23 0:04:00
There are some 1700 syllable-characters in Mandarin (and thus in baihua), while the English language, in contrast, has over 8000 possible unique syllables. How is it then that a language with only 1700 syllable-characters can express the same range of nuances as, say, the English language? The answer lies in the homophone, or the syllable-character that sounds the same but signifies very different things. This is most easily demonstrated in Pinyin (the transcription of the phonemes"... »View details
Spoken Chinese
Spoken Chinese
Created by samshen at 2011-10-19 4:49:00; Last updated by samshen at 2013-4-23 0:07:00
While spoken Chinese is a large family of regional, mutually unintelligible languages (aka fāngyn, or regional languages) all belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family, within each separate language there may be numerous dialects which, in contrast, are mutually intelligible within the given language and note that these individual languages may be spread across national borders, especially as regards Southeast Asia. Fangyan: regional la... »View details

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