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Chinese language is easy to learn

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1. Overview of Chinese language:

The Chinese langauges are exclusively spoken in China (including Taiwan, Hongkong and Macau) and also spoken by overseas Chinese and their offsprings (e.g. San Francisco, US, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia). It is considered the language of the Han people, the major ethinic group in China.

Some ethinic minority groups have their own language and characters, such as Tibetan, Lolo, Miao, Tai and Mongolian. However, the population that speaks Chinese is about 95% of the total population in China.

Chinese Mandarin and Dialect

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Modern Chinese language which contains mandarin and various of dialects, is widely spoken all over China.

Mandarin, commonly used in daily business communication, is based on Northen accent with the criterion of Beijing pronunciation. Modern Chinese grammars are considered criterion. Mandarin facilitates people from different regions with different dialects to communicate with each other.

A Brief Introduction to Romanized spelling system of Chinese - Pinyin

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The phonological system of the modern standard language in Chinese, Putonghua or Guoyu, can be represented by letters. Of all the letters of English alphabet, 25 letters are used for Pinyin. Letter \'v\' is not used, while letter \'ü\' is added to represent the vowel sound \'yu\'.

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online

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Unit 0: Introduction to Pinyin

Unit 1: Let\'s get to know each other

Unit 2: My family

Unit 3: Where do you work?

Unit 4: This is my address

Unit 5: Where are you from?

Unit 6: I am learning Chinese

Unit 7: Is Chinese difficult?

Unit 8: I understand Chinese

Unit 9: What job do you do?

Unit 10: What time is it now?

Unit 11: What day (date) is it today?

Unit 12: What\'s the weather like here?

Unit 13: Do you like Chinese food?

Unit 14: What game do you like?

Unit 15: I am planning to go to China

Pronunciation & Romanization

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This introduction is written by Prof. Robert Sanders, and has been revised to fit the purpose of this web presentation by the web page author, Wenze Hu. We are very grateful for Prof. Sanders\' allowing us to use this material as the introduction to our Chinese Pronunciation guide. The copy right of this introduction belongs to Rober Sanders, and that of the web presentation of this introduction belongs to the Harvard Chinese Language Program.

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