Phonetics is divided into intonation, tone and syllable. China's intonation includes exclamations, questions and statements. You can tell whether it is an interrogative sentence or an exclamatory sentence from the tone. Tones include "one, two, three, four, softly". Western languages should pay attention to open syllables and closed syllables, including light syllables and heavy syllables, as well as monosyllables and polysyllables. These characteristics determine the fundamental difference.
2. Differences in language forms
The structure of Chinese characters is up, down, left and right, surrounded and semi-surrounded. Like the building structure, it is a three-dimensional intercommunication, showing the image, integrating itself into nature, and achieving the effect of intercommunication and mutual construction. The western characters are not three-dimensional structures, but streamlined symbolic letters and characters, without hieroglyphics. Those tortuous and playful symbols are highly humanistic, logically related and emphasized.
Reasons for cultural differences between China and the West;
First of all, because of the different cultural origins between China and the West, the people who eat are different, so the way of thinking is different. The eastern and western environments are completely different, and farming culture and river culture have many influences on China culture. In ancient times, people in China relied on rivers for better farming. Therefore, compared with the origin of western culture, the origin of China culture was born in a fertile land suitable for farming.
The origin of the west mainly comes from many islands, such as the Aegean Sea and the sea around it. Because the western region is different from China, the western region is dominated by marine culture, and the land in the west is not as concentrated as the cultivated land in China, which is limited by the local climate. Therefore, agriculture is not as developed as China, and westerners have to turn to developing business when it is not in line with the development of agriculture, so this is one of the fundamental reasons for the cultural differences between China and the West.