The Chinese Language Demystified

Author : Zhengming Du
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443884952

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The Chinese Language Demystified by Zhengming Du Pdf

The Chinese Language Demystified offers a detailed exploration of the features that have made Mandarin Chinese so unique among the major languages of the world, particularly English and other European linguistic forms of communication. While discussing the aspects that contribute to the perception of the language as somewhat ‘mysterious,’ the book also investigates how it is comprehended and used by the Chinese people despite its lack of formal grammatical structure in the conventional terms of understanding.

Author : James Hung
Publisher : James y Hung
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692924957

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The Chinese Language Demystified by James Hung Pdf

Did you know that... -there are over 50,000 Chinese characters in existence today? -Chinese is the oldest written language still in use today in the world? -many Chinese babies are named after important historical events? -the Chinese names for dumpling and sleep sound almost exactly the same? Chinese is a fascinating and mysterious language that has captured the attention of scholars and linguists for centuries. This book explores many of the language's idiosyncrasies and its place on the world stage. You will learn how Chinese characters are invented and discover different aspects of life relevant to the Chinese language-how it's tied to the country's history, art, customs, and culture. A reader without any knowledge of the Chinese language will have no trouble understanding it.

Author : Claudia Ross
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780071634168

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Chinese Demystified by Claudia Ross Pdf

Learning Chinese is a no-brainer with Demystified Chinese Demystified walks you step by step through the fundamentals and moves on to more advanced topics. Each chapter concludes with a self-test that allows you to track your progress, and a comprehensive final exam at the end of the book gives instant feedback on new language skills. The book includes characters in simplified and traditional formats along with pinyin phonetic translation for easy pronunciation.

Author : Jenwei Kuo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716017025

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Chinese Grammar Demystified 2.0 by Jenwei Kuo Pdf

A Must-Read Tool Book for Mandarin Chinese Learners & Educators. Although human beings around the globe use many different languages, their needs and wants in their daily lives are largely similar. Thus, similarities between languages do exist, and often are amazingly plentiful. In this book, we capitalize on the precious clues embedded in the similarities between English and Chinese to empower learners with the confidence in that knowing one language can be significantly beneficial in learning the other. This process is called the Δ-Lingual (R) language learning system, a proven method that is strongly validated by recent neuro-scientific research *. * Weber et. al. 2016 for the research details on the Journal of Neuroscience: https: //www.jneurosci.org/content/36/26/6872

Author : Jenwei Kuo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1387753991

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Chinese Grammar Demystified by Jenwei Kuo Pdf

Although human beings around the globe use many different languages, their needs and wants in their daily lives are largely similar. Thus, similarities between languages do exist, and often times are amazingly plentiful. In this book, we capitalize on the precious clues embedded in the similarities between English and Chinese to empower learners with the confidence in that knowing one language can be significantly beneficial in learning the other. This process is called the

Author : Claudia Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:1330341065

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Chinese Demystified by Claudia Ross Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Chinese characters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021222596

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Demystifying the Chinese Language by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Sampson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527555228

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Voices from Early China by Geoffrey Sampson Pdf

The Chinese “Book of Odes” (Shijing) is a collection of 305 poems dating from between 1000 and 600 B.C., and, thus, is one of the earliest literary works in any living language. It offers vignettes of life in an almost unimaginably remote society; many of the poems have great charm, for instance, some are authored by women about their love problems. (For such early literature it is remarkable how many poems are by women.) Over the centuries the content of the Odes has become obscured by developments in the Chinese language, by prudishness and pomposity on the part of commentators, and because earlier translators were often more interested in philological technicalities than in the poems’ human significance. This book cuts through these obscurities to present a new translation into straightforward, down-to-earth English. The Odes are the earliest rhyming poetry in any language, and they make use of alliteration and assonance to achieve their poetic effects, but changes in the sounds of modern Chinese have destroyed all this speech-music. This book restores it: alongside the author’s translations, it spells the Chinese wording out in the sounds used by the original poets—something which has only recently become possible through advances in the reconstruction of Old Chinese speech.

Author : Zhengming Du
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443898409

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Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese by Zhengming Du Pdf

As the first self-teaching course in Jimmy Du’s Natural Language Works, Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese is an audio-companion book specially designed to help you master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible. The promise is that you will simply “pick it up” if you just spend a little time following this course while relaxing at home, taking a walk, commuting to work or travelling. You don’t have to sit in a classroom, consult the dictionary, study grammar or do any written exercises. This least-effort principle is based on the understanding that we human beings all have an innate aptitude for picking up any human language, native or foreign. All you have to do is keep listening to what you can immediately understand, imitate, and put to use. For the highest efficiency, we have provided easy-to-understand explanations and translations of everything in the text. The text contents are carefully selected so that they will not only serve as a basis for you to expand your vocabulary, but also help you learn the nature of the Chinese language and how it works.

Author : Richard Gillam
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0201700522

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Unicode Demystified by Richard Gillam Pdf

Unicode is a critical enabling technology for developers who want to internationalize applications for global environments. But, until now, developers have had to turn to standards documents for crucial information on utilizing Unicode. In Unicode Demystified, one of IBM's leading software internationalization experts covers every key aspect of Unicode development, offering practical examples and detailed guidance for integrating Unicode 3.0 into virtually any application or environment. Writing from a developer's point of view, Rich Gillam presents a systematic introduction to Unicode's goals, evolution, and key elements. Gillam illuminates the Unicode standards documents with insightful discussions of character properties, the Unicode character database, storage formats, character sequences, Unicode normalization, character encoding conversion, and more. He presents practical techniques for text processing, locating text boundaries, searching, sorting, rendering text, accepting user input, and other key development tasks. Along the way, he offers specific guidance on integrating Unicode with other technologies, including Java, JavaScript, XML, and the Web. For every developer building internationalized applications, internationalizing existing applications, or interfacing with systems that already utilize Unicode.

Author : Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521191807

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Demystifying the Chinese Economy by Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

An insightful account of the remarkable transition of the Chinese economy from impoverished backwater to economic powerhouse.

Author : John DeFrancis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986-03-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824810686

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The Chinese Language by John DeFrancis Pdf

"DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley

Author : Maria Kurpaska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110219142

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Chinese Language(s) by Maria Kurpaska Pdf

"The book uncovers the role The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects plays in analyzing the spectrum of linguistic differentiation in China. The author starts by sketching the development and current state of Chinese dialectology and dialectal research. She then provides an analysis of the Dictionary and of the kind of information it provides. Looking at Chinese dialectology from a Western point of view, the author aims to understand and present the Chinese perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hongyuan Dong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317743897

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A History of the Chinese Language by Hongyuan Dong Pdf

A History of the Chinese Language provides a comprehensive introduction to the historical development of the Chinese language from its proto Sino-Tibetan roots in prehistoric times to Modern Standard Chinese. Taking a highly accessible and balanced approach, it presents a chronological survey of the various stages of Chinese language development, covering crucial aspects such as phonology, syntax and semantics. Features include: Coverage of the key historical stages in Chinese language development, such as Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, Early Modern Chinese, Classical Chinese and Modern Standard Chinese Treatment of core linguistic aspects of the Chinese language including phonological changes, grammatical development, lexical evolution, vernacular writing, Chinese characters and Modern Chinese dialects Inclusion of many authentic Chinese legends and texts throughout the book, presented through a rigorous framework of linguistic analysis to help students to build up strong critical and evaluative skills and acquire valuable cultural knowledge Integration of materials from different disciplines, such as archaeology, anthropology, history and sociolinguistics, to highlight the cultural and social background of each period of the language Helpful appendices to aid students with no prior knowledge of linguistics or the Chinese language Companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/dong offering a wealth of supplementary resources such as additional exercises, answer keys and audio recordings of the sounds of Middle and Old Chinese. Written by a highly experienced instructor, A History of the Chinese Language will be an essential resource for beginning students of Chinese Language and Linguistics and for anyone interested in the history and culture of China.

Author : Kristin Mulrooney
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071601382

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American Sign Language Demystified with DVD by Kristin Mulrooney Pdf

Get your message across using your hands and your body language Want to communicate with the Deaf community but are mystified how to start? With American Sign Language Demystified you'll learn this unique visual language, and a whole new world of communication will be opened to you. At your own pace, you will learn basic grammar structures, discover the nuances of body positioning, master how to convey time, and build a useful vocabulary of signs and phrases. To help you on your way, the accompanying 100-minute DVD features in-depth demonstrations of how to make signs and create phrases and sentences as executed in American Sign Language. This fast and easy guide offers: A DVD that contains all the signs and phrases in the book as well as hundreds of additional vocabulary signs Quizzes at the end of each chapter to monitor your progress Etiquette you need to know when using ASL A helpful history of ASL Simple enough for a beginner but challenging enough for a more advanced student, American Sign Language Demystified will help you communicate in ASL confidently and comfortably.