The tones and the Chinese
characters are very difficult.
lì
li:
yŭ fă ne?
丽丽：
语法呢？
Lili:
How about the Chinese
grammar?
mài kè:
yŭ făbù nán.
麦克：
语法不难。
Mike:
The grammar is not difficult.
lì
li:
nĭ mĕi tiān
dōu liàn xí xiě hàn zì ma?
丽丽：
你每天都练习写汉字吗？
Lili:
Do you practice and
write the Chinese characters everyday?
mài kè:
shì de. Bù mĕi
tiān xiě de huà hěn róng yì wàng jì.
麦克：
是的。不每天写得话很容易忘记。
Mike:
Yes. It’s easy to forget
them if I don’t write everyday.
Chinese (Mandarin) is
the language of the Han nationality and the main language of
China. The standard language of the modern Chinese is putonghua
(the common spoken Chinese). Based on the northern dialect,
putonghua uses Beijing phonetics as the standard and
typical modern vernacular works as the grammatical norm. Studying
putonghua, people should learn the Chinese phonetic alphabet
first which gives phonetic notation to Chinese characters and
putonghua.
