This Chinese course is for learners who do international business. With the development of Sino-foreign trade, Chinese language communication becomes more and more important. This Chinese course covering common situations such as inquiring, offering, inviting clients, negotiating contracts, etc. which are necessary for your business in China. It enables the learners to communicate in Chinese in a short period of time.
Tomorrow belongs to China”, and “Chinese is the language of the future.” These are statements we hear from people returning after business visits to China. Be ready for tomorrow; don’t get left behind. Heeding these recommendations, I decided to go in for lessons in Chinese.
My first shock came when I heard that Chinese is a tonal language. The same word spoken in different tones can have different meanings. The classic example is the common word “ma”, which has four meanings when uttered with a high tone, a rising tone, a falling-rising tone and a falling tone. The pitfalls...
This article describes the grammar of Standard Mandarin. For the grammars of other forms of Chinese, see their respective articles via links on Chinese language and Spoken Chinese.
Chinese grammar—here referring to that of Standard Mandarin—shares a similar system of grammar with the many language varieties or dialects of the Chinese language, different from those employed by other language families, and comparable to the similar features found within, for instance, the Slavic languages or Semitic languages. Beyond genetic similarities within the Sino-Tibetan language family to...
More Malays are enrolling their children to Chinese schools. I don't have the statistics. There's no "official survey" (not that I know of anyway). What I say is what I see. And I see many Malays including tudung clad women sending their little ones to Chinese schools everyday since the new school year began two weeks ago. Malay children studying in Chinese schools are not new. We have that for ages. But what I'm saying is nowadays, their numbers have grown. Why?
Again there's no official study on reasons Malays send their kids to Chinese schools. (Maybe there is, but I'm not aware or...
On this occasion of celebrating Martin Luther King's life and mission, it's interesting to note that there is a Chinese connection to a memorial currently being planned for the slain civil rights leader on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
The project coordinators selected Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin in 2007 to be the Sculptor of Record for the memorial that would stand between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials on the Mall. The groundbreaking for the MLK Memorial is expected in early 2009 and it is expected to be completed by 2010.
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