May 27

What to expect? What not to expect? with Mandarin Chinese Language

What to expect?

Be ready for Chinese thought.

Mandarin Chinese consists of pictographic (radicals) and functional (initial+final) two characters representing meaning and sound.

TABLE 1 Tree Diagram for the Word niao (bird)

Mandarin Chinese sentence is Subject+Object+Verb, Subject+Verb+Object

Mandarin Chinese sentence consists of adverbial, adjective, noun clauses and phrases.

Mandarin Chinese; Achievement of writing=Achievement of reading and speaking.

What not to expect?

Mandarin Chinese language does not have Latin alphabet.

Mandarin Chinese language is not same as English language grammar.

Mandarin Chinese’s Pinyin will not save you!