For me, this is what makes Chinese such a difficult language to learn. Each is pronounced as a single-syllable phoneme with one of four particular "tones", and can be written phonetically with the appropriate accent mark (this is called "pinyin"). This got me thinking.Įvery Chinese character is unique. Sometimes, when I rest my cursor over them, a small pop-up box appears, containing more Chinese text (this also happens with English-language web pages sometimes, with English text). Bi-lingual news sites, mostly, but due to the origin of the page, ChineseĬharacters that nobody has bothered to translate are inevitably seen. ![]() ![]() I do surf over to Chinese web sites once in a while, though, out of nostalgia for the place. ![]() Although I lived there for nearly two years, my 'putonghua' is atrocious, and I'm Chinese-illiterate.
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