Is Chinese a backward language?
TL;DR From an anglophone POV, Traditional Chinese is indeed a backward language! [Pages 16 {right} – 17 {left} of the Chinese version of Holes, by Louis …
Is there a reason why Chinese characters are written vertically?
In the past Chinese has been written on rolls of bamboo sticks which made it easier to write the characters vertically and from left to …
Is Chinese writing in China inferior to English since English is easier to read and write?
I don’t know about “inferior”, but I would expect that it is harder. When I lived in Hong Kong a lot of my ethnic Chinese …
What does 番菜館 mean in Chinese?
Although the first Chinese character in this term, 番, could mean foreign, the term in the question, 番菜馆, referred to restaurants which served Western food. …
Why does Chinese grammar seem easier and more concise than Japanese and Korean?
Thank you for the request. That’s because Chinese grammar is objectively easier than Korean or Japanese grammar. Now, don’t get me wrong, for an English …
Is it politically correct to say someone speaks Chinese?
It’s not offensive, but it’s horribly incorrect. It’s like saying people from France and Albania both speak “European”. I mean, there are a group of …
Why don’t Chinese read Tang poetry in Middle Chinese?
Why don’t Americans read Shakespeare in contemporary English, or Chaucer in contemporary English? That’s not the way Shakespeare of Chaucer sound. If you have studied …
People who learned Chinese as a second language, how did you do it?
Just suffer through it. Life is hard, what do you expect? In the literal sense of the question, I took online classes. Five hours of …
People who learned Chinese as a second language, how did you do it?
I studied it for four hours daily for one year, then I went to Chinese-language high school and graduated from high school (three years) where …
Why are Mandarin and Cantonese often simply termed as “Chinese” if they are very different?
Mandarin and Cantonese is Chinese, that’s why they are termed as Chinese, they are just different dialects from the same language, the writing is the …