Learn the language that is spoken by the largest number of people in the world

Those who have a range of Chinese (Mandarin) will have one cutting edge over others as China is one of the economies of the fastest growing in the world, and for the foreseeable future, Mandarin will exert an influence that nobody can ignore.

Language ESL specialist provides opportunities unprecedented for those who have a desire to learn (Mandarin) Chinese in China. The beautiful monumental city of Beijing has two partner of ESL language schools: Language School Mandarin House and school Sprachcaffe language.

Language School House of Mandarin in Beijing is located in the China Central place, where there is no shortage of ultramodern hostels, shops, banks international offices and all that. The school offers optimal conditions for learning (Mandarin) Chinese in China. The school has nice, professional and peaceful atmosphere. The building is equipped with all modern facilities equipped classrooms and cafe, where students can relax and chat with other students after their classes.

Housed in the Cultural Palace in the interior of the Tartar city of the Manchus, language Sprachcaffe school also offers courses Junior Chinese (Mandarin) in China. It has spacious and bright classrooms, a cafeteria, and almost all modern facilities that allow students to learn Mandarin intensively in a relaxed atmosphere.

International language school house in Qingdao offers courses in Mandarin high quality focused primarily on communication. This school is divided into two centres of course: East and West. Both centres have classrooms equipped with air conditioning, Internet access, coffee shops, spacious living room, where students can relax.

Mandarin language school house in Shanghai, which is located in the heart of the city centre, close to the pedestrian section of Nanjing, is one of the best schools to learn (Mandarin) Chinese in China. It is surrounded by restaurants, cafes and shops that meet diverse needs of students. The school has a qualified, trained and dedicated teachers who is always willing to help students. The school has 22 equipped classrooms, a multimedia room which offers free Internet and WiFi access.

School of languages to International House in Xi'an also offers courses Junior Chinese (Mandarin) in China. This school is located in the Centre of Xi'an - the Capital of China Shaanxi Province. International House in Xi'an is located in a modern, two-story building and features well equipped 16 classrooms, a library, a room for students, a kitchen, a computer room with free Internet access.

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Chinese morphology

Chinese morphology is the study of words and make the word. Its objective is to understand the meaning of the relationships between words and forms that are expressed, including how grammatical relations are marked in different languages. For example, plurality is explicitly marked by an s - Spanish, for example, books as a plural noun, and the book as a singular noun. In addition, relations between words may require some morphological in different parts of the sentence changes. For example, the form of the verb varies depending on the person and number of the subject phrase in an English sentence as this book is very interesting from these books are very interesting in that the subjects and verbs have a relationship agreement, i.e., a third-person singular, subjective substantive corresponds to the copular verb is and a third-person plural subjective different noun to a copular verb.

Cross-linguistically, the minimal unit of meaning is commonly called a morpheme, and is divided into two major types, free and dependent. Dependent morphemes mainly relate to affixes like the English plural marker - s that only makes sense when it is attributed to a nominal stem. Alternatively, a noun as a book is called a free morpheme because it makes sense on its own and refers to something in the real world or is called a stem of an affix which shall be attached to the.

Affixes are prefixes such as the English UN - unhappy and suffixes such as the ingleses-capaz of laughable. Suffixes can be derivational or inflected. In general, affixes inflectional refer to elements as the - s in plural marker in English and fewer in derivational suffixes number as the old function to create forms of words with additional grammatical meaning as a plurality. Include other inflectional morphemes in English - ed indicating tense, - ing progressive, possessive, s-er comparative, superlative etc.,-est. Morphemes derivational as - English tend to be more numerous than inflectional affixes in a language they operate in a stem or a root, like laughing resulting in a new Word ridiculous. Other English derivational affixes include re - reproduction-, lie in the establishment- and luck, etc.. Finally, not all linked morphemes are affixes, also there are linked roots as - sist in English that constitute the root or stem, to derivational processes to generate words like resist, they consist in, remain while is does not occur by themselves makes sense in a language, as in the forced morphologically affixes. Although there are free morphemes that make up the majority of the stems, they still provide a form base to new words in a way other affixes derivational in a language.

Compared to English, the limit of a Chinese word is far from being transparent, as many bookmarks morphological affixes are often non-existent, because the Chinese language does not mark tense, or parts of the sentence, morphologically. The fluidity of the concept "word" in Chinese has even led some to claim (Hoosain 1992, Zhang 1992) morphemes are more versatile in Chinese than other languages and more indeterminate with respect to their status as bound-free. The notion of "word", known as c? in Chinese, is a concept particularly intuitive or easily defined. In addition, Chinese orthography does not require any space between characters, regardless of its morphological State, i.e. not distinguishes written between free and dependent morphemes which conceals its existence in the mind of the speaker. On the other hand, wenz? "characters" that are used to represent each syllable of a morpheme with a character regardless of morphological status appear to be a more natural concept. Perhaps for this reason, almost all Chinese dictionaries list vocabularies through characters instead of words. Dictionaries are most commonly referred to as z?dian, literally "norms of nature."

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About spoken Chinese

Chinese is the language of more than one billion speakers. There are several families of dialect of Chinese, each in turn composed of many dialects. Although different dialect families are often mutually unintelligible, systematic correspondences (e.g. in the lexicon and syntax) exist between them, making it easy to ensure that the speakers of a dialect collect another relatively quickly. The largest dialect family is the family of the North, which consists of more than 70% of Chinese speakers. Standard or Chinese Mandarin is a member of the family of the North and is based on the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect. Interestingly, most standard Chinese speakers have another dialect as their first language and only less than one percent of them speak without some degree of accent.

There are 22 consonants in Chinese Mandarin. Compared to English, the distribution of the consonants in Chinese Mandarin is closely dependent on the position of the syllable and the syllable structure is much simpler. There are two kinds of syllables - complete and weak ones - in Chinese Mandarin. The first is inherent, underlying tone and is long, while the latter does not have any intrinsic tone and is short. A complete syllable can change to a weak, losing his tone intrinsic and subjected to syllable rime reduction and shortening (similar to the reduction of the syllable in English).

In contrast to English, which has more than 10,000 syllables (mono), Chinese Mandarin has only about 400 syllables excluding tones (and 1300) including tones. Relatively simple phonological constraints can be sufficiently described the way in which many available syllables are excluded as being valid in Chinese Mandarin.

The special characteristics in spoken Chinese signal properties consist of tonality and fundamental frequency variations indicating identity in language paralinguistic information lexical. Analysis of the discourse of fundamental frequency or tone extraction techniques, therefore, are most important for the Chinese than for non-tonal languages, like English. Recent research has provided production and accounts perceptual tonal variations in Chinese, where the articulatory restriction in the processing of perception has been quantified.

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Chinese language and culture

The Chinese language, which is a communication system used by the Chinese people on a daily basis to meet several goals in life, inevitably leads many features that reflect some of the social beliefs widespread in their culture. Culture can be defined more or less as socially learned patterns of behavior and interpretative practices, what language plays an important role. In fact, the ways in which many words in Chinese idioms, popular proverbs, metaphors and neologisms are widely used among Chinese correspond to cultural beliefs and experiences that have shaped China as a country in the last three millennia.

In addition, the Chinese people, which has been in contact with many foreign cultures and languages throughout history, has also embraced and integrated into their own culture, many ideas and foreign concepts. The structures of neologisms, including many Chinese words of European origin and the system of writing Chinese morpheme-syllable are examined together to show the importance of the meaning of coining neologisms in Chinese. For example, the use of modern Chinese culture representing the culture was adopted from Japanese as it was first widely used in Japan as a lexicon neologized that represents the culture of the European word in the 19th century. In the 19th century the Japanese taken these two Chinese graphemes to create a new Word to translate the European culture word in Japanese. Later, this Japanese word neologized was reintroduced in Chinese or returned to China, to translate the word Europe itself.

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Have fun with Chinese by learning among locals

With China's economy grows at an incredible pace, who can communicate in standard Chinese (Mandarin) is set to enjoy a great advantage in the international world of business in the future. China also is a great country that offers a wealth of exciting travel experiences, and if you know some Chinese will help obtain and get more of your trip.

The Chinese language, spoken by more people than any other language in the world, is the official language of the people's Republic of China, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore.

The best way to learn any language is to have fun with him and speak in context - giving to the Chinese language students the perfect excuse for a long trip to China.

On its own immersion in the culture and the Chinese language, absorb much more than you would by studying alone or in a course of language in their country of origin.

Study options

In major universities or private schools, with courses available for all levels, from beginners to intermediate and advanced level students can study in China.

Some courses last just a few weeks, while others are much longer. Beijing language and Culture University (BLCU), for example, is the University most known in China for the teaching of Chinese language and culture to foreign students. It offers short courses for a duration of 4 weeks, 5 weeks, six weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks or 20 weeks, in addition to courses in the long term of duration of one or two academic years.

If you are interested in learning Chinese while traveling, more for communication for companies, might consider joining a study and travel program, which normally combines learning of languages with trips and cultural activities, often pairing him with a 'buddy': a student of native Chinese school which will give you many opportunities to socialize with locals and immerse yourself in Chinese life.

Immerse yourself in the language

Wherever you choose to study in China, be sure that the course incorporates immersion teaching methodologies - where most classes are taught in Chinese to completely immerse you themselves in the language from the beginning. The course should provide a balance of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills if seriously learning the language at a decent level and class sizes should not be too big or not obtain sufficient individual attention.

And after classes, when not busy doing their homework, get and visit shops and markets to put their new language skills in use in everyday life.

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Languages of Mandarin Chinese, transcription systems and character sets

Many dialects are spoken in China. Mandarin is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken in most parts of North, Central and Western China. However, Mandarin, as it is known in the world, refer to standard Mandarin (or modern standard Chinese) based on the dialect of Mandarin spoken in Beijing. Standard Mandarin is the official language known as Putonghua in China. Standard Mandarin is also one of the five official languages of the United Nations and is used in many international organizations. Phonologic descriptions show the structural model of a Mandarin syllable is an optional initial consonant followed by the vowel, and then optionally followed by an alveolar nasal ending or velar. Another component of the Mandarin syllable is the tone which primarily specifies the tone of the syllable pattern. Technically, a syllable occurs in terms of its initial, final and tone. Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language because tones, just like consonants and vowels, are used to differentiate words each other.

Chinese linguists have proposed various systems of transcription of Mandarin. But the most popular are Hanyu Pinyin. Hanyu Pinyin was accepted as the official transcription system of the Chinese language in 1958 by the Chinese Government. The transcription system used in the entry of Chinese characters in the computer systems.

Currently, there are two sets of Chinese characters used by the users of the Chinese language, namely, traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. Traditional Chinese characters have been used since the century v. This character set is still currently used in some Chinese communities overseas. Simplified Chinese characters originate in the simplification of formal, during the 1950s and 1960s. Now, this simplified Chinese character set is the system of writing in China and is accepted by the United Nations. Computer systems, use different codes for these two sets. The code of guobiao, are silenced (GB) is a national standard character encoding in China. Refers to the set of GB 2312-80 issued in 1981, the GB 18030-2000 set issued in the year 2000. There are 6.763 Chinese characters in GB 80 3212 established code.

Chinese Mandarin is known as monosyllabic because most of the words are one syllable in length. This is true for classical Chinese, but it is no longer true for modern Chinese. A large number of polysyllabic words used today in the Chinese newspaper. One syllable when it pronounced with different tones corresponds to different characters. A Word is written in polysyllabic form with two or more characters. Already Chinese texts without spacing between words, an additional effort is required to segment a phrase in parts of the word. Due to these characteristics, the design of the corpus of Chinese language needs additional considerations. Most of the developed Chinese language processing systems recently is standard Mandarin. Few of them meet other dialects such as Cantonese, Min nan, Hakka, Wu, etc..

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The strokes of Chinese writing

The Chinese character for "cloud" was written as in the Oracle bone script and bronze script, those who have a line of curves in the bottom something like a piece of floating cloud. However, after Chinese writing was standardized after the dynasty Han, various Chinese graphemes can be analyzed in terms of lines, i.e., lines, points and hooks that draw not a piece of paper with a writing instrument, forming Chinese characters encode words. For example, in the standard script, the previous angular and wavy lines were replaced by more and more regular lines that are more compatible with stroke techniques. In so doing different types of strokes can be identified easily. A Chinese character should write blow by blow. Chinese children are taught to write different strokes in each Chinese character strictly following the rules of stroke order.

There are many practical reasons for students to learn these rules of stroke order. For example, writing is considered an art form in Chinese culture. These rules can help students to develop some skills in the placement of several strokes proportionally to produce aesthetically acceptable Chinese characters. In addition, one could not use many Chinese dictionaries effectively without knowing the order of the strokes, as most index dictionary rules systems draw for order of strokes as a useful to help users form are the entries of a certain Chinese character. Even though the romanized spelling system was introduced, most Chinese dictionaries still offer an index based on the number of strokes because there are many people who are not familiar with the system of romanized adopted in a given dictionary pronunciation or a certain Chinese character pronunciations. For example, in the most commonly used the contemporary Chinese dictionary in China, is a system of index two stages is divided into two sections, "radical initial" and "guide of the radical", both of which largely depend on the number of strokes. This dictionary, which contains over 56,000 words, recognize some initial radical 200. The user needs to count the number of strokes in the radical initial of a Chinese character, or the first Chinese character if the word has more than one Chinese character, find the section that has all the Chinese characters with the same radical initial. Then the user must have the number of strokes in the rest of the Chinese characters to find the page number where are listed all the entries from the Chinese characters.

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The southern and Northern Chinese (Mandarin) dialects

The plethora of the linguistic diversity of the Chinese languages in the South and a Mandarin unified in the North might be related to the geographical features of northern China and the South. "Dialects of Chinese Mandarin," are distributed between the plain of yellow and the plateau of Loess that has a flat terrain that promotes tourism and, consequently, easy contact between the people there. Ramsey observes that "this remarkable difference Linguistics between a unified North and a fragmented South is a measure of how much life and society have been affected by geography". As a result of this geography, creates an area of northern Chinese more uniform with mutually intelligible dialects. In contrast, mutually unintelligible dialects are spoken in the areas south of the Yangtze River because there are people stood by mountains and rivers.

The dialects of the North, with almost 900 million speakers, are commonly subdivided into four main varieties: characteristic of the Northwest, North, River, and Southwest. The Northwest variety refers to the dialects spoken in the region of the plateau of loess with the ancient capital city Xi'an as its Center. The variety right North is spoken in areas as Hebei province, province of Shangdong and provinces in the northeast (Manchuria). This variety is the basis of the standard dialect in modern China. The language was formed through immigration large scale persons residing in this area over the past several hundred years. Therefore, Northeast dialects have a strong resemblance to other dialects of the North as in the majority of migrants settle there originally moved from the area of the northern dialect. The River variety spoken in the region to the North of the Yangtze River around the city of Nanjing was once considered the most prestigious dialect of the nation during and after the Ming dynasty. The Southwest variety developed out of several waves of emigrants to settle in the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou China central after the dynasty Ming.

During the 18th century the Qing emperors sent troops to settle in these remote areas permanently with their families and encouraged immigration on a large scale of Hubei and Hunan provinces to reclaim land in Southwest China. As a result, the Southwest variety in many ways resembles the language spoken in Hubei province. North China usually has fewer tones of Chinese dialects in the South. However, the most notable feature distinguishing Chinese North of the southern Chinese dialects mutually unintelligible is perhaps the lack of stop endings that prevail in many dialects of the South such as Wu, Yue and Min.

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