Learn Chinese characters

For beginners who learn Chinese language, it is always more difficult to learn Chinese characters than anything else. However there is a way out. It’s been proven by many learners that learning Chinese characters by category will help them better learning mandarin.

How? Let’s take a look at the following group of Chinese characters as an example: “X 光”(guāng)", “可口可乐”(coca cola) , “麦克风”(microphone), “比基尼”(bikini), “超市”(supermarket). This group of characters didn’t exist in the Chinese language because they come from English. We can this group of characters wai4 lai2 ci2, words coming from other country or language. Foreign as they are, they have been existing in Chinese publications and people’s daily life now.

It means to substitute the foreign morpheme with the same or similar native morpheme, only borrowing the foreign meaning. In Chinese school, this means a shift in the meaning of some established native Chinese Characters, so as to accommodate the meaning of English words. That is, the word has already existed in Chinese language, when borrowing the same word from English, people assimilated some of its meaning in English which are new to Chinese, and then the meaning of this word in Chinese has been extended. Sometimes, the work is accomplished through an intermediary. And English “zhuan jie ci” in Chinese mainly comes from Japanese.

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Taking part in Contest to learn Chinese

Learning mandarin is no doubt the first choice when people consider picking up a language to learn. The reason is various. There are many ways to learn mandarin: some tend to seek Chinese tuition while others take part in Chinese contest. Many students who are learning mandarin take part in such contest as Chinese speaking contest, Chinese debating contest, etc. That’s why a lot of Chinese language completions were held in many countries, such as Singapore, America, and Australia.

Those who learn mandarin Singapore may be excited these days. In the afternoon of 17 senior group of final, 8 contestants have not satisfied through the speech show Chinese, have the talent show, not only the authentic Chinese name, the talent show is tunnel: blow to pull her, Chinese kung fu, tongue twisters, rap, Chinese "the mouth kung fu" native to China than young people was opened.

Get the "Chinese bridge" senior group of champions Si MaXian also say, Chinese in Singapore was "fire", he has been learning Chinese for less than 1 years, but learning mandarin helped him understand Chinese culture, so more study is fast." He said, learning Chinese, let him know that his past to know China better "superficial", now more and more like Chinese, also more and more like Chinese culture.

Chinese consulate general education counselor Cen Jianjun attended the game, he cannot help but praised the players "high level", he also encouraged beginners to learn pinyin and to take part in Chinese language contest like this one "one country language learning is the best way to learn about the country that China and Singapore Cultural exchange between the countries will continue to put forward the friendship between the two countries.

Are you also one of those who learn mandarin Singapore? Why not join us in the contest and show your Chinese off?