回复:Learning Mandarin Chinese

来源: 2011-09-15 06:34:30 [博客] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读:

@nosorog91 look for books that talk about the history of the words. the concept is similar to egyptian hieroglyphics- all of the chinese characters once looked like a picture of the actual object/thing. they also have roots similar to the way english words have latin roots

  • well you have to memorize each sound for each word also.....

    its like the mesopotamian writing system to me....and this is nothing lol

    cantonese..the other chinese dialect has 7 tones!

  • @zos2322 o.k memorizing words isn't as difficult as chinese characters unless i understand meaning of each line. is there any symbolic connection between phoneme and ieroglyph's element?

  • google b y k i and they have a program with all sorts of help...it's really good...

    theyre not that hard...im 16 years old and people said mandarin is really hard....

    not true...if you really like it and dedicated than you can do it...i've learn to speak fluently : french, italian, portugese, chinese mandarin and english in a course of 5 years.

  • start by numbers...usually they get your pronounciation good...then move to pronouns......common things...start using a chinese dictionary

    and....star reading chinese children books..start from the bottom...build your way up

  • @zos2322 omg, how i'm supposed to memorize all the chinese words?? is there any logic behind these lines and curves?

  • each symbol means a word....an alphabet doesnt exist here

  • are these letters, sounds or morphems with meaning?

    omg, what a difficult language

  • sorry terrible lesson. you should use compounds & words

    with pinyin & the meaning (yeah i saw them) in Bigger text.

    and Yes chinese writing system is Brilliant!

    anyone who thinks "its Dumb" is just to dumb to learn or understand

  • @xxxmikeyxxxx "Courage and wisdom is embodied in one." But I think replacing the 个 with 起 sounds a lot better, we rarely say 体现在一个 because 个 is supposed to be used in front of an object/ phrase. Replacing 个 with 体 may also good but then the two character 体 will appear too close to each other which is kinda strange.. I'm not an expert on chinese grammar but I hope it helps.
  • what does this mean  勇气和智慧体现在一个 (PLEASE REPLY)