第二十课：谈语言
Background
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.
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lì li: n? y? qián xué guò hàn y? ma?
丽丽： 你以前学过汉语吗？
Lili: Have you
ever studied Chinese before?
mài kè: w? xué guò yī nián.
麦克：
我学过一年。
Mike: I’ve studied Chinese for one year.
lì li: n? yīng
gāi xué xí biāo zh?n de p? tōng huà.
丽丽： 你应该学习标准的普通话。
Lili: You’d better
study standard Chinese.
mài kè: hàn y? de shēng diào hé hàn zì b? ji?o
nán.
麦克： 汉语的声调和汉字比较难。
Mike: The tones and the Chinese characters are
very difficult.
lì li: y? f? ne?
丽丽： 语法呢？
Lili: How about the
Chinese grammar?
mài kè: y? f? bù nán.
麦克： 语法不难。
Mike: The
grammar is not difficult.
lì li: n? m?i 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 m?i 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.
New Words
语言yǔ yán: language
学习 xué xí: study
标准 biāo zh?: standard
普通话 p? tōng huà: common spoken Chinese
声调 shēng diào: tone
字 zì: character
语法 y? f?: grammar
练习 liàn xí: practice
容易 róng yì: easy
忘记 wàng jì: forget
