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On learning the Chinese language
Learning Chinese Class expands in the US while other foreign languages fade
Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese
By SAM DILLON
January 21, 2010 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/education/21chinese.html?ref=global-ho...
Test available to ensure proper spoken Mandarin
Test available to ensure proper spoken Mandarin
14 Fe 2009
By YENG AI CHUN
PETALING JAYA: Mandarin speakers will now be able to assess the level of their speaking skills and obtain a certification from the Education Ministry of China when a verbal proficiency test on the language is made available to Malaysians from May.
The test will enable Mandarin speakers to be tested locally.
和 living harmoniously
If you have caught the Olympics opening ceremony, you would have seen the Chinese characters formed by the moving blocks display. The word displayed was 和 which is pronounced as he2 (second tone).
This character is actually composed of two characters, on the left is 禾 which means grain, and on the right 口 which means mouth. Both characters taken all together forms the 和 character.
We can say that harmony 和 results when everybody has enough (禾 grain) to eat (口 mouth).
Tea or 茶 Cha2
Tea is a common drink throughout the world. It is thought that drinking tea originated from the China. There are a whole lot of tea categories. In China tea are classified like black, green, red and white tea. In addition there is the Pu Erh (普洱) tea. Tea classifications based on the processing that they have gone through,i.e. fermentation, semi-fermentation, etc. Pu Erh is unique due the action of the microbes that enriches the tea, and make it very healthy. Like wine, it ages well and older Pu Erh is well regarded and more expensive.
Chinese Text Adventures
Text adventure games, also called Interactive Fiction, precede the current batch of visual and reflex-based games. It was invented in the mid 1970s when graphical computing power is not commonly available. It reached its zenith, in the eighties, the “Zork” trilogy and anthology probably sold over millions of copies.
Learning Characters
In Mandarin, apart from the tonal pronunciation, recognizing the Chinese characters is a stumbling block to most people. This stems from the lack of alphabets, that makes memorizing the written characters difficult. However there are various strategies that can be employed.
IMCICON 2008 Presentation.
Loke K.S. & Holly Yang. (2008). ZhongWen 360 PowerPoint Presentation.
