The history of Chinese language. By: Hanchu Zhang & Billy Shi. Table of Contents. Introduction Some details and history about Chinese language How to spell a word How easy Chinese is Conclusion. Introduction.
Chinese language is one of the oldest languages that is still being use nowadays. It is also a very famous language though out the world. It is also a very easy language to learn.
Many archeologists believe that Chinese language was existed around 3,000 B.C.There are around 70,000 Chinese characters and Phonetic sounds. Every Chinese people have to know at least 3,000 characters to be able to read the newspaper. In the middle school, the numbers of characters that was being taught is 5,000.
Chinese people always use a way to spell a word which is call "pinyin". It is a complex way to type a word but if you know every letter is sound like it will be very easy. For example, when you say good in Chinese which is "hao". You need to know that how does the "h" and "ao" sounds like.
Chinese is an easy language to learn in some ways. For example, when you say volcano in English, you must to learn this word to understand. On the another hand, in Chinese, "volcano" is "fire mountain". In Chinese, you can easy to understand a word by separate them to two words.
After you finish watching this show, I think you may have a different point of view to Chinese language. There are almost 1.6 billions are using or understand this language which almost 25% of the people in the world. I believe that one day Chinese will be as popular as English.
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