![]() The only difficulty is that each syllable exists in 4 tones, first tone is a level tone (doesn’t go up nor down), second tone rises as in a question, third tone goes down and then up as if you are surprised, and the fourth tone goes down as hen you are angry. This is not to difficult since Chinese words only exists out of one syllable, like wo (I 我 wǒ), ta (he 他 tā), da(big 大 dà). So you have to memorize the sound (pronunciation) of Chinese Characters, like you have to for numbers. And so it is in Chinese, Chinese write down the meaning not the sound. In other words in writing numerals you write down the meaning, not it’s sound. But you will understand that it is a collection of 5 items. ![]() You can compare it with numbers, if you read 5, depending on what language you speak you will say five (English), quince (French), funf (German),vijf (Dutch), pito (Tagalog) etc. ![]() Chinese AlphabetĬhinese has no alphabet, they use pictograms. The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Chinese language.īelow is a table showing some Chinese characters and how it is pronounced in English. Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. Learning the Chinese alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation.
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