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Brief Introduction of Chinese Language
One most distinctive difference of Chinese Language with most other languages is the Chinese characters. I think this is the hardest fortress for language learners to conquer. While most Western Languages consists of 26 alphabets (English), each Chinese characters in a way, is a picture-a simplified and modified picture that represent something. Actually we as Chinese speaker, also did not really studied how each and every single characters came from (oracle)- only a few that is very significant e.g. Fire 火 (pronounced as "Huo")
From above, you can see "Fire" originated from a stack of wood in fire. Then over the years the oracle simplified and modified to today's character 火. The second barrier that Chinese language learners to overcome is the tone. For instance, Mandarin Chinese language is of 4 different tones. Each different tone would mean different meanings. As such , the romanized tool (which we call Hanyu Pinyin), always label with number 1,2,3 or 4. For instance in "Fire", it should be labelled as "Huo3", the third tone. Huo1, Huo2, Huo3 & Huo4 are all different meaning. PS: Famous Huobi Exchange in crypto world, Huo is the "Fire", Bi is the "Currency". After giving 2 big barriers to readers, I would like bring good news to Chinese Language learners -- that is the grammar in Chinese Language is super simple. There is no past tense, present tense, future tense , future continuous tense etc in Chinese grammar. For instance, Past tense , we will say "we yesterday go to the shop " (direct translate) Present tense, we will say "we now go to the shop" Future tense, we will say "we tomorrow go to the shop" The verb will not change- always in "go", only the time will indicate when is the thing going to happen. Stay tune for following lessons!
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Thanks man for showing and opening your culture towards us. Hope to see more of these.
Thanks :)
Huo means fire. Words of today.
Yup, "Fire" in current trend also used as "trendy" among yongsters. Very "fire' means popular and trendy haha
How to use it in a sentence? Is it "Ni Huo" means you are popular and trendy? Can be use to refer people or just things like bag or cloths?
haha huo (popular) normally refer to an object eg housing project , handphone model. You can say "wow ur huawei P40 hen2 huo3" (very hit the line). If say someone is huo, could lead to meaning this guy is very impatient, temper not good. :)
I see. Thank you for the explanation. You should include this in your next post.
What a good job! Your narration is very key to understanding the history of Chinese language. Keep doing the good job!
Thanks, it's my first attempt to teach others Chinese . Hopefully more into foreigner's perspective to know it as a whole concept. :))
Thank you for the feed back to my comment. I appreciate it a lot. It is an encouragement for being on read.cash. Thank you a lot.
I love China, most especially the way they write their words using ink instead of pen. It is really awesome to me.
I love China, most especially the way they write their words using ink instead of pen. It is really awesome to me.
I love China, most especially the way they write their words using ink instead of pen. It is really awesome to me.
I love China, most especially the way they write their words using ink instead of pen. It is really awesome to me.
Yup, you referring to Chinese calligraphy right? it's really an art to master, as each Chinese character itself a picture of itself. Writing it different way could be very artistic and nice to see. :)) Thanks.
Wow love the Chinese language. Not one of the easiest to learn or speak but opens a world to the Chinese culture which is rich in tradition and history.
Yup thanks for the comment. Chinese language indeed not too easy to learn but hope can open a door for others to have a look at it. It's quite interesting actually. :)