Hello Friends of Learning words, let's learn a little about the Chinese language?

Chinese or Mandarin?

Before starting the article it is important to know this, are both the same? The answer is yes and no. Chinese refers to writing, which includes the system known as Pinyin, it differs from traditional to simplified in some ideograms, but in speech the story changes, since officially in China Mandarin is widely spoken by everyone, there are dialects in villages, ethnicities and cities, some of these dialects include Cantonese spoken in Canton and have Shanghai and Taiwanese, but all use Chinese as script.

To fix:

Chinese: Chinese writing

Mandarin: Chinese spoken.

Simplified or Traditional Chinese?

THE Simplified Chinese it is a simplified form of traditional Chinese characters created by the People's Republic of China to promote literacy, has fewer features, is used in the People's Republic of China, Singapore and the Chinese community in Malaysia, but is not used in Taiwan.

THE Traditional Chinese dates back to the Han Dynasty era and has remained reasonably stable since the 5th century. The term “traditional” is used to distinguish traditional characters from the other writing pattern of Chinese, has more features. Currently, traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Difference example:

Traditional Chinese: 你為什麼沒來, 發生了什麼事。

Simplified Chinese:你为什么没来, 发生了什么事.

Pinyin: nǐ wèi shén me méi lái, fā shēng le shén me shì

Portuguese: Why did not you come? What happened?

Traditional Chinese:如果你再不離開的話我就要叫警察了！

Simplified Chinese: 如果你再不离开的话我就要叫警察了！

Pinyin: rú guǒ nǐ zài bù Líkāi de huà wǒ jiùyào jiào jǐngchá le

Portuguese: If you don't go out I'll call the police.

Traditional Chinese: 他的飛機早上六點到。
Simplified Chinese: 他的飞机早上六点到。

Pinyin: tā of fēijī zǎoshàng liùdiǎn dào

Portuguese: Your'll come at 6 horin the morning.

Chinese Language Data:

This language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan subfamily linguistic stem. It is a tonal, isolating and, basically, monosyllabic language, tending to monosyllabism mainly in the written variant. For the transcription of Chinese tones there are “accents” that help to pronounce the words correctly. There are 4 tones that this video talks about a little:

Let's learn some Chinese phrases:

That's it for today, but stay tuned, we will continue to talk more about Chinese… so:

再见 (Zàijiàn) - Goodbye!

Source: Wikipedia.

Introduction to the Chinese language