The Chinese Speaking World

说中文的世界 shuō zhōngwén de shìjiè

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The Chinese Speaking World

Listening 听 tīng Speaking 说 shuō Reading 读 dú Writing 写 xiě

Who speaks Chinese?

听与说 tīng yǔ shuō

Across the world, 1.31 billion people are speaking Chinese as their native language, either in one variation of Chinese or another. Mandarin, as the most widely spoken variant, is spoken by 955 million people primarily living in China, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Not only China uses Chinese as official language.

方言 Regional Languages

民族 Ethnic Groups

How many languages are there in China?

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• There are over 300 dialects "方言fāngyán" function as communicating language in China.
• Even speaking Mandarin, there are distinctions of accents "口音 kǒuyīn" due to the impact of dialects.
• Many of the 56 ethnic groups "民族 mínzú" have their own language and culture.

• Chinese is a very broad concept. It is not one language.
• The common spoken language is called "普通话 pǔtōnghuà", Mandarin Chinese is used as official language among global population..

A brief summary of Chapter 1

Chinese Characters 汉字 Folk Tales 神话 Idioms 成语 Two-Part Allegorical Saying 歇后语

读与写 dú yǔ xiě

汉字 hànzì

Strokes 笔划, Radicals 部首, Order of Strokes 笔顺 （Structures 结构）

What forms Chinese characters?

Pinyin is NOT the written language.

add grammers, metaphors, etc.

A whole piece of article

Strokes

Chinese characters(Radicals+ Strokes)

Advanced Use

Radicals

Vocabulary & Phrase

Composed in certain ordersand structures

A brief summary of Chapter 2

Follk Tale 神话传说 shén huà chuán shuō 仓颉造字 cāngjiézàozì

汉字是怎么出现的？

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Evolution of Chinese Characters 汉字的演变

If we step further into the written language domain....

Chinese Calligraphy 书法 shūfǎ

Fun fact that is usually overlooked when learning to write 汉字

What could possibly go wrong?

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Some extra resources if you want to get started on Hanzi writing...

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Basic Strokes

Radicals

Have higher standards for yourself? Neat your writing.

Don't panic. 别害怕 bié hài pà

Thank you! 谢谢你们