Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
Because Chinese is written in ideograms (hanzi) while English is written in phonetic symbols (Latin alphabet). Each Chinese character represents an idea – a noun, an adjective, a …
They are called Latin or Roman characters. It were the Romans who invented the alphabet English uses, and they used it to write Latin. The Chinese …
It’s been Latinized Confucius is one of the most influential Chinese philosophers. His philosophy, Confucianism, forms the basis of much of what we think of …
My pastor and his wife are from Guangdong and immigrated to the US about 10–12 years ago. They speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, and he …
I studied Russian for three years in high school. By the time I had done that, I could kind of patch together a shaky Russian …
I use Zhuyin and this is part of the keyboard for my PC. As you can see ㄅㄆㄇㄈat the left of the picture where ㄆ …
No, alphabet based systems aren’t easier to write. It simply shifts the difficulty from one aspect of writing to another. Let’s take English for example. …
The dialects in the North are more closely related to each other because travel was a lot easier. The topography map below shows mountain elevations …
The Han Chinese are a mix of many groups over time, and here are some of the likely groups: A proto-Chinese group in southern China, …
Well, I’ll assume that you want to remember more than some cringe tourist level phrases to just get by. Usually, Cantonese is a spoken language …