①·The largest user population.
There are 6 billion people in the world, more than 200 countries and regions, and more than 2,500 ethnic groups. There are 5,651 identified languages. The languages ??with the largest population are: Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, German, Russian, French, Bengali, Portuguese, etc.
According to United Nations statistics, 1.6 billion people around the world speak Chinese, accounting for 25% of the world's total population.
The ⑥ major languages ??newly announced by the United Nations are: 1 English, 2 Chinese, 3 German, 4 French, 5 Russian, and 6 Spanish.
②·Chinese characters are stable, have a long history, and have strong cultural heritage.
Chinese characters are characters that have lasted for ⑤ millennia. Although Chinese has many dialects due to phonetic differences, it does not affect the understanding of written Chinese characters between people.
Chinese is a relatively convergent and stable language. This enables the inheritance and development of ancestral wisdom and civilization. Today's Chinese students can read catchy Chu poems by Qu Yuan, a poet from 2,000 years ago.
English is a divergent and unstable language. English spelling was unified only 400 years ago, and it is still difficult for English graduates to read Shakespeare's original works 300 years ago.
③·Chinese characters use fewer words (3,500 commonly used characters), have strong word-forming ability, and have a large amount of information.
Now, the number of English vocabulary words has exceeded 1 million, and ordinary people cannot remember them all in a lifetime. According to statistics from the New York Times, 10,000 to 20,000 new words are produced in English every year. The new vocabulary in English has little connection with the original vocabulary. This is how millions of English words came out.
With Chinese, there is no need to create new characters, just combine new words with existing Chinese characters. All English vocabulary and new words can be expressed using 3,500 Chinese characters.
The ability to form words using Chinese characters is too strong, and one can also draw inferences by analogy, which greatly reduces the amount of memory. The famous scholar Ji Xianlin said: "Chinese is the most concise language among the world's languages. To express the same meaning, if it takes 60 seconds in English, 5 seconds in Chinese is enough. ""
In English-speaking countries, no one can read a newspaper without 20,000 words, and no one can read Time magazine without 30,000 words. Professionals who have graduated from college for 10 years generally need to know 80,000 words.
The standard for Chinese character literacy in my country is 1,500 characters. College students majoring in science and engineering generally master 3,500 Chinese characters and have no problem doing scientific research. As for reading and reading newspapers, you can do it after graduating from elementary school. ① Most people can read and write 2000 Chinese characters.
Think about it, Americans have learned 30,000 to 50,000 words, but the information they can enjoy is still very limited, and they have to face tens of thousands of new words every year. Chinese people can enjoy almost all information by learning ③④ thousand Chinese characters.
The best language is to know without learning, to learn less but to know more. What is wisdom? This is wisdom.
④·Chinese vocabulary is extremely rich and easy to express.
Chinese vocabulary is very rich. For example, "look" has many expressions: look, watch, look, look, look, glance, glance, glance, read, peek, slant, look, overlook, look up, look up, etc., and stare· White and horizontal (such as crossing TA. ① eye) and so on. In addition, viewing, appreciating, investigating, examining, consulting, etc. all include the meaning of seeing.
For example, in the expression "death", there is more room for choice of words, with clear distinction between praise and blame, and what word should be used. In history, the death of the emperor was said to be ""Beng"", and the death of a queen or a high official was said to be ""died"". Commonly used ones are: death, death, death, passing away, passing away, old, gone, gone, no longer there Died, passed away, slept forever, sacrificed, sacrificed, benevolent, glorious, fell down, left the world, left me, never come back, stopped thinking, the heart stopped beating, drove to the west, returned to the west, go up It’s the west, I’ve seen Marx, I’ve become cold, I’ve become hard, I’ve forgotten to vent my anger, I’ve canceled my household registration, I’ve seen the King of Hell, I’m so sad, etc. In addition, suicide, committing suicide, drowning in a river, killing oneself, hanging oneself, moving one's head, moving one's head to another place, etc., all mean death. In works of art, folklore in various places, and people's oral creations, there are so many different ways of saying about death that it is impossible to describe them all.
There are very few words in English that express a certain meaning.
⑤·Chinese language is expressive, incisive, precise and easy to understand.
Thoughts expressed in English can find corresponding Chinese expressions; however, thoughts expressed in Chinese may not necessarily find corresponding English expressions.
It is easier to translate foreign language works into Chinese because there are fewer foreign words. Generally speaking, T.A’s ① words can be translated into Chinese with many words, and the translation process is also ① creative process. The same sentence in a foreign language is different when translated into Chinese. The same foreign literary work is very different when translated into Chinese. Rulong's translation of Chekhov's "Chameleon" is very different from Huang Zhirui's translation. Sample. Fu Lei's translation of Maupassant's "The Necklace" is also different from Wang Zhensun's translation. The reason is simple: the Chinese vocabulary is so rich.
It is relatively difficult to translate Chinese into English. After being translated into a foreign language, some of the translations are not so accurate, and some translations are inconsistent with the original meaning of the Chinese, out of tune, and distorted. Got the taste. There are some poems and idioms that they can't even translate, and they even make jokes. ""① Order two o'clock ③ Order ice-cold wine, hundreds and thousands of lilac flowers"";""The clear waves of Zhanjiang Port are rolling, and the turbid waves of Bohai Bay are rolling";""The empty and lonely house, the widow's apartment is suitable for guests Staying, traveling on a long and winding road, meeting someone by chance, getting lost, etc. These couplets related to Chinese characters are difficult to translate into English.
⑥·Chinese pronunciation is scientific and Chinese thinking is fast.
Chinese has loud pronunciation, sonorous intonation, rich variety, and the beauty of music. Chinese is flat and oblique, divided into yin and yang, soft tones, and modulations. The poems, lyrics, and poems are all mediocre and mediocre, with harmonious rhyme and musical beauty. They are catchy to read and harmonious and pleasant to listen to.
Chinese has 3 to 7 times more pronunciations than English. Research shows that it takes about 1/4 second for ordinary people to make a sound, and Chinese thinking speed is faster than English.
Mandarin Chinese has 20 initial consonants, 39 finals and 4 tones. The result of continuous multiplication is about 3,000 sounds. There are 2500 sounds that can be used, and 1200 sounds are commonly used. Therefore, if you want to express 1,200 things in Mandarin Chinese, you only need one sound and it takes 1/4 second.
English has 20 vowels and 20 consonants without tones. Therefore, the number of sound types in English will not exceed 20×20=400. In other words, if ① sounds correspond to ① things, then the 400 sounds in English can only express 400 things. If you want to express things other than these 400 things, you can only rely on the repetition of sounds, using 2 or more sounds. It can be seen that to express the 401st thing, Americans need 2 voices and take 1/2 second.
Chinese mathematics is a monosyllabic pronunciation, so Chinese responds to numbers faster than English.
⑦·Chinese character glyphs are a treasure trove of wisdom. Can be written horizontally or vertically.
With its unique charm, Chinese characters have become the carrier and foundation of Chinese civilization, as well as a unique artistic treasure in the treasure house of world civilization. The unique square Chinese characters are one of the important reasons why the ancient Chinese civilization is the only one in the world civilization system that continues without interruption to this day. T.A is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation and an object with fresh life. T.A contains rich aesthetic and poetic flavor, and has profound cultural connotation and charm.
Chinese character glyphs are an integration of abstraction and image, philosophy and artistry.
The evolution process of Chinese character glyphs: Oracle → Bronze Inscriptions → Small Seal Script → Official Script → Running Script · Cursive Script · Regular Script · Song Style
The characters are divided into traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. The strokes of Chinese characters have horizontal and vertical strokes with dots and hooks. The structures include single body, top and bottom, left and right, inside and outside, as well as top, middle and bottom, left, middle and right, semi-enclosed and fully enclosed. The writing methods are also different. The vertical can be divided into vertical with hanging needle and vertical with hanging dew. Points can be divided into left points and right points. Fonts used to be divided into real cursive and official seal scripts, but now there are more and more fonts. Regular script can be divided into Yan, Liu, Ou, Chu, Su, Huang, Mi, and Cai. There are so many fonts that foreigners can't match them. Song type, Wei type, Kai type, Xing Kai, Shu type, Li type, Hei type, Yuan type, Variety type, Amber type, Advertising type, Peace type, etc. In Song style, there are also New Song Dynasty, Shu Song Dynasty, Mark Song Dynasty, and Bao Song Dynasty.
The round body is divided into thick round, thin round, quasi round...
⑧·Chinese characters are a perfect combination of sound, shape and meaning.
Chinese characters are 2-dimensional information of sound, shape, meaning, and body. Chinese characters have the greatest expressive power in a flat space (paper), so Chinese characters are more convenient to read, and their characteristics can be captured in a glance. , mapping its meaning, is an advanced form of text.
English is ①-dimensional coded information. It has no expressive ability and is not intuitive. It is only a sound symbol and a low-level form of text.
The ② dimension of Chinese characters determines the diversity and flexibility of its input methods. It is far more able to stimulate people's pioneering spirit and space for wisdom than the boring coded English of ① dimension.
As a writing system for recording the Chinese language, Chinese characters are a masterpiece of the Chinese people and a combination of aesthetics and practicality. Almost every character is a beautiful shape.
⑨·Chinese has rich derivatives.
Chinese calligraphy is profound and has a long history. It is the quintessence of the country. ① A piece of calligraphy work, or ① a character, is priceless. I once saw a calligrapher painting a painting for the nave. It was a big "Crane" character, but if you look closely, it looks like a painting, with a standing crane dancing gracefully.
Chinese rhythmic poetry, poetry, Yuan opera, drama, cross talk, local drama, lantern riddles and other forms, as well as phonetic puns, semantic puns, idioms and other rhetorical techniques add endless charm to the Chinese language.
These arts and cultures based on the charm of Chinese characters are unique to any other country in the world.
10. Chinese grammar is simple. Learning Chinese is difficult first and easy later.
Chinese has four difficulties: difficult to read, difficult to write, difficult to remember, and difficult to recognize, as well as pronunciation, grammar, rhetoric, logic, word meaning, parts of speech, and parts of speech. When writing, you also need to choose words, sentences, and layout. wait. Precisely because it is difficult to learn Chinese, T.A is more and more precious. Good things are not easy to get.
Chinese grammar is extremely simple, with no verb changes, no singular, plural, yin and masculine changes, etc.
Chinese has few characters to recognize, the character combination is simple and scientific, and the glyphs express the meaning. After mastering 1,500 Chinese characters, you can know without learning, learn without a teacher, draw on analogies, and understand everything.
Nowadays, Chinese input into computers is faster than English, and voice input has greater advantages. In the future, computers will enter the ②·③ dimension era, and Chinese will increasingly show its advantages!
Our Chinese ancestors are so great! Such a beautiful language was created!
""When English meets Chinese, you will know how powerful Chinese is! ""