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thats one of the reason i prefer northen chinese girls as well coz they are taller paler with longer legs and rounder 'ars*' :P````!

lol.. don't we all? :cheers:
 
OMG, anyother "copycat" get caught for stealing others article by adding a few of his own words as his "Chinese expert" showoff post.:rofl:

Please have some self-respect, stop stealing others words as your own and stop pretending you know sh!t regarding Chinese languages

The script on these "oracle bones" is known as 甲骨文 (jiăgŭwén) - literally "shell bone writing". They were used for divination, a process which involved heating them then inspecting the resulting cracks to determine to answers to one's questions. The bones were then inscribed with details of the questions and the answers. Most of the questions involved hunting, warfare, the weather and the selection of auspicious days for ceremonies.

The Chinese writing system

Chinese is written with characters which are known as 漢字 [汉字] (hànzi). The characters were originally pictures of people, animals or other things, but over the centuries they have become increasingly stylised and no longer resemble the things they represent. Many characters have been combined with others to create new ones.

Until the early 20th century, Classical Chinese, 文言 (wényán), was the main form of writing in China. It was standardised during the late Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) and was also used in Korea, Japan and Vietnam before they developed their own writing systems.

In Classical Chinese most words were monosyllabic and written with a single character. However, during the 1920s a new form of written Chinese modelled on spoken Mandarin was developed. Most Chinese publications since then have been written in this form, which is known as 白話 [白话 ] (báihuà), though Classical Chinese constructions and especially proverbs are still used to some extent.


In spoken Chinese, words are made up of one, two or more syllables. Each of the syllables is written with a separate character. Each character has its own meaning, though many are used only in combination with other characters.

Every character is given exactly the same amount of space, no matter how complex it is. There are no spaces between characters and the characters which make up multi-syllable words are not grouped together, so when reading Chinese, you not only have to work out what the characters mean and how to pronounce them, but also which characters belong together.

Homophones

There are approximately 1,700 possible syllables in Mandarin, which compares with over 8,000 in English. As a result, there are many homophones - syllables which sound the same but mean different things. These are distinguished in written Chinese by using different characters for each one.

Not all the following characters are pronounced with the same tone, so to Chinese ears they sound different, but to Western ears they probably all sound the same. These syllables can be distinguished in speech from the context and because most of them usually appear in combination with other syllables. Chinese script and language :lol::rofl::lol:

This is one of the many reasons why Chinese is one of the hardest language to learn. :cheers:
 
This is one of the many reasons why Chinese is one of the hardest language to learn. :cheers:

I think Chinese should be easiest east asian language for english speakers, because Japanese and Korean have extremely strange grammars.
 
I think Chinese should be easiest east asian language for english speakers, because Japanese and Korean have extremely strange grammars.
And that's precisely why Japanese & Koreans tend to have a harder time learning foreign languages than Chinese do.
 
I think Chinese should be easiest east asian language for english speakers, because Japanese and Korean have extremely strange grammars.

To speak it perhaps, but to read and write is a whole new ball game :P
 
chinese characters are just too hard.
 
Started with the infractions, realized, everyone would probably end up being banned. Thread closed for now. No more name-calling. Its a simple no go area. Talk about the topic and thats it.
 
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