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Monday 8 February 2016
Chinese
Hey! In this post I’m going to talk about one of my favourite
languages, Chinese and the character system works for those of us who no
nothing Chinese dialects such as mandarin. Chinese character have three elements
to them, image (form), meaning and sound. There are six principles that are
used to define and understand he characters which I’m going to talk about now:
1. Pictograms
These are words created by things we can see. For example a
person, animals or objects. This was the start of how the use of characters
began.
2. Simple indicatives
These are words that cannot be drawn, such as directions and
numbers.
3. Compound indicatives
These are words meant to be understood clearly after the
pictograph and indicatives are formed.
4. phono-semantic compound characters
This represents a word that is made from another word its
similar to, with additional signs or characters added to make a new character. The
word is pronounced like one of the original words.
5. Borrowed characters
This was originally borrowed from another word that was
pronounced the same (a homophone)
6. Derived characters
Represent words that share the same root word or meaning
I really think learning how a language works before jumping
into it gives you a solid foundation. After reading through these principles
and elements. Mandarin doesn’t seem as impossible to learn. I hope this was some
help and feel free to comment, if something wasn’t quite accurate. For last
tip, build up your vocab.
^-^ thanks for reading!
source:http://courses.vivastreet.co.uk/language+hastingwood/mandarin-chinese-lessons-for-children-in-old-harlow--essex/93208144
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/mandarin1/4535
Monday 11 January 2016
Introduction!^-^
Hello, Bonjour, 你好, 안녕, こんにちは, Hola! welcome to mylangy, by Langy I mean language. on my blog I will talk about all languages I'm interested in and I will be giving you reasons as to why to start learning a new language and what I'm learning right now. I speak fluent english but plan on learning new languages starting this year! I have learnt french in school but I'm still improving. I hope this would help you get an interest in one of the many many languages I want to learn.
Hello, Bonjour, 你好, 안녕, こんにちは, Hola! welcome to mylangy, by Langy I mean language. on my blog I will talk about all languages I'm interested in and I will be giving you reasons as to why to start learning a new language and what I'm learning right now. I speak fluent english but plan on learning new languages starting this year! I have learnt french in school but I'm still improving. I hope this would help you get an interest in one of the many many languages I want to learn.
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