Chinese is one of the most spoken languages in the world. Most
people feel Chinese as one of the difficult languages due to the complicated
written form and the spoken style. Some people also believe that Chinese is the
language similar to Japan or Korean and that is also totally a false statement.
The language has special and unique features that have made it remain in the
top of the list. By the growth of globalization, people are determined to learn
more language for the welfare of the business and to communicate with the clients
worldwide. Despite the increase in technology, the agreements or bonds are
still maintained in softcopy as well as in the form of hardcopy. In that case,
the purpose of Chinese
translation service is well understood, as more companies had lost in bad translation. The
interesting facts of Chinese language are listed below:
facts on Chinese language
I. The
first to know about the Chinese language is its tonal structure. There are very
few languages which are characterized by the tone. Chinese is one among them
and it has four types of tones
1.
the
first is high tone which is stable at high level
2.
the
second tone gradually increases from the middle level
3.
the
third tone falls first and then rises to below high level
4.
the
fourth tone drop from the high level to bottom level
There is one more special tone called
neutral which is completely different from the above and it is produced very quickly.
II.
The
next to discuss is the grammatical form they bare. Most of the languages don’t
come live without the grammar part. Even a single change will lead to change of
the entire meaning, so folks have to study that separately. That is avoided in Chinese
learning process, as the language purely depends on the tones for the variation
in meaning of the sentences.
III.
The
strokes used in Chinese language reminds about the symbolic representation used
in the early Stone Age period but there are believes that Chinese letters are the representation of few
characters. The strokes are the only difficult part in learning the written
Chinese form. The advancement in Chinese language has given with reduced stokes
which is easy for the newbie.
IV.
The
written form of Chinese is based on two concept called ideograph and the
pictograph. The ideograph is the character formed based on the idea of the word
and the pictograph is based on the pictorial representation of an object. As
the Chinese is tonal language, the phonetic form is very important in order the
keep the wittings readable with complete accuracy.
V.
The
Chinese dialects are numerous based on the culture and the provinces. The most
commonly used Chinese dialects are mandarin, WU, Cantonese, Hakka, etc… the
mandarin is spoken in major part of the countries. Though the Chinese is
consisted with more than 45,000 characters, it is enough to know 2500 character
to the most to manage.
VI.
Pinyin
is special kind of Chinese dialects and that is specially developed for the
people who are not the origin of Chinese. The pinyin is the English
transcription of phonetics and the translation of Chinese characters which
helps the non-Chinese to easily understand the language.
These are some of the basic facts to be known for the people
who wish to learn Chinese. Chinese bare the heritage of being one of the
official languages of UN. Though learning of Chinese is easy, this is not for
the person to translate the Chinese language to any of the destination language
or the reverse. so it is always recommended to have professional translation
company for the translation purpose.
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