Chinese Should Be the Official Language of the World

[MH.Yang]

Dear @Beijingwalker . 8 people from around the world reacted to the post. And they all laughed.

If you read the threads from 2008 when China rejected Obama's G2 offer, you'll see that 100 out of 100 replies at the time mocked China.

Now it's 17 years later, ask those people if they still dare to mock China.

We as a people have walked with miracles for thousands of years. Those who mock us are just incapable of comprehending higher latitude thinking. How can a small sparrow know the eagle's longing for the other side of the horizon.

 

[Guynextdoor]

If you read the threads from 2008 when China rejected Obama's G2 offer, you'll see that 100 out of 100 replies at the time mocked China.

Now it's 17 years later, ask those people if they still dare to mock China.

We as a people have walked with miracles for thousands of years. Those who mock us are just incapable of comprehending higher latitude thinking. How can a small sparrow know the eagle's longing for the other side of the horizon.

if you think the world will give up English to learn Chinese instead you need psychiatric help.

I'm DEFINITELY mocking you on this.

@Beijingwalker pretty sure they're laughing at the idea and not the video.

 

[MH.Yang]

if you think the world will give up English to learn Chinese instead you need psychiatric help.

I'm DEFINITELY mocking you on this.

@Beijingwalker pretty sure they're laughing at the idea and not the video.

Those of you who take pride in using the language of the colonisers certainly cannot understand us Chinese. That is why you are losers.

The little sparrow that mocks the eagle.

 

[Sharma Ji]

if you think the world will give up English to learn Chinese instead you need psychiatric help.

I'm DEFINITELY mocking you on this.

@Beijingwalker pretty sure they're laughing at the idea and not the video.

How about Hindi as the world language ?

 

[Proud Thamizhan]

Why not?
Start with Pakistan as part of CPEC

 

[j_hungary]

I did not learn Chinese as much but I did learn Japanese. Using a Kanji dictionary has been one of the most bewildering aspect of language learning. You first "predict" the radical (I know it comes naturally to people used to it because looking at Kanji you can likely tell what is the meaning it is closest to) then you count strokes (because you can literally see the stroke order in which the Kanji would have been written) and then you find your Kanji.

Later they introduced SKIP method which indexes the Kanji with their structure as left-right, up-down, enclosing, unique and stroke counts in both parts for a 3 number SKIP code to actually look up the Kanji.

Given Kanji are essentially Chinese characters stolen by Japanese each time they invaded China (j/k), I think Chinese use similar techniques.

That being said, strokes and stroke orders ARE indeed historical in nature, when Chinese was written using Brush. It was standardised with stroke rules but still those rules are more like guidelines and have exceptions to them.

Well, I will say this is more of a habit (of how someone written the word) then historically related, I know what you were saying tho, because it's how they were written since basically the beginning of time in Calligraphy.

But again, for me, it's more of a habit than any historical reference.......

And you don't actually "Predict" the radical, a Chinese word was built in a way that it related to the word it meant. And then how the word "sounded" for example

貓 = Cat

The radical is 豸, it means the side of dog paw (狗爪邊)

It basically mean animal with paw, so the word 貓 come from 狗爪邊 + "苗", which is similar to the sound of "Meow" which make up the word for Cat.

 

[MH.Yang]

I did not learn Chinese as much but I did learn Japanese. Using a Kanji dictionary has been one of the most bewildering aspect of language learning. You first "predict" the radical (I know it comes naturally to people used to it because looking at Kanji you can likely tell what is the meaning it is closest to) then you count strokes (because you can literally see the stroke order in which the Kanji would have been written) and then you find your Kanji.

Later they introduced SKIP method which indexes the Kanji with their structure as left-right, up-down, enclosing, unique and stroke counts in both parts for a 3 number SKIP code to actually look up the Kanji.

Given Kanji are essentially Chinese characters stolen by Japanese each time they invaded China (j/k), I think Chinese use similar techniques.

That being said, strokes and stroke orders ARE indeed historical in nature, when Chinese was written using Brush. It was standardised with stroke rules but still those rules are more like guidelines and have exceptions to them.

You should learn Chinese before you learn Japanese, then you will find that learning Japanese is a very easy thing to do. For example, the 50-syllable chart in Japanese can be learnt directly using Chinese pinyin.

If you learn Japanese first and then learn Chinese, it will be very difficult.

 

[Guynextdoor]

How about Hindi as the world language ?

Tamil is better.

 

[Guynextdoor]

Those of you who take pride in using the language of the colonisers certainly cannot understand us Chinese. That is why you are losers.

The little sparrow that mocks the eagle.

I mock you and laugh at your face for your insane ideas

 

[Sharma Ji]

Tamil is better.

Maybe, but impractical, machan !

Hindi zbeakers in zouth Indiya = almost all of they are doing.

Tamild in north/cow belt = illa, wonly unaa, randa, maybe naalla zbeakers wonly we are having !

 

[Guynextdoor]

Maybe, but impractical, machan !

Hindi zbeakers in zouth Indiya = almost all of they are doing.

Tamild in north/cow belt = illa, wonly unaa, randa, maybe naalla zbeakers wonly we are having !

Actually mallu should be the language of the world.

But the obvious problem is that it is spoken by malayalees so it is better for the UN to ban the language worlwide eventually.

The problem with Chinese is it is spoken by Chinese so it obviously cannot be world language.

So the best compromise language is Tamil.

 

[AjayGhatak]

Well, I will say this is more of a habit (of how someone written the word) then historically related, I know what you were saying tho, because it's how they were written since basically the beginning of time in Calligraphy.

But again, for me, it's more of a habit than any historical reference.......

And you don't actually "Predict" the radical, a Chinese word was built in a way that it related to the word it meant. And then how the word "sounded" for example

貓 = Cat

The radical is 豸, it means the side of dog paw (狗爪邊)

It basically mean animal with paw, so the word 貓 come from 狗爪邊 + "苗", which is similar to the sound of "Meow" which make up the word for Cat.

Try finding radical for this


I mean I am having a lot of difficulty in doing this and heck even google does badly at this.

I believe people who learn Chinese well can sense the meaning of the character in a new character because they can see similarities between characters already known. I have a lot of difficulty in that. And unless you can see similarties guessing radical is hard and that means using dictionary is hard.

There are some 220 or so radicals. Do you folks know characters with all of them? Or do you remember all 220 radicals? And if not, how do you guess the radical?

@ety @MH.Yang

 

[j_hungary]

Try finding radical for this
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I mean I am having a lot of difficulty in doing this and heck even google does badly at this.

I believe people who learn Chinese well can sense the meaning of the character in a new character because they can see similarities between characters already known. I have a lot of difficulty in that. And unless you can see similarties guessing radical is hard and that means using dictionary is hard.

There are some 220 or so radicals. Do you folks know characters with all of them? Or do you remember all 220 radicals? And if not, how do you guess the radical?

@ety @MH.Yang

That is a radical itself.......That mean long in English.....

長部 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书

zh.wikipedia.org

It's already been too long for me to know how I learn Chinese, as I said, I wouldn't be the best people to ask, but I do remember you need to hard remember some words.....

But then, even the best of the best won't know all 260,000 words. That's why the question "How to write XXXX" is very popular when you are doing Chinese Essay Class

 

[ety]

Try finding radical for this
View attachment 102224

I mean I am having a lot of difficulty in doing this and heck even google does badly at this.

I believe people who learn Chinese well can sense the meaning of the character in a new character because they can see similarities between characters already known. I have a lot of difficulty in that. And unless you can see similarties guessing radical is hard and that means using dictionary is hard.

There are some 220 or so radicals. Do you folks know characters with all of them? Or do you remember all 220 radicals? And if not, how do you guess the radical?

@ety @MH.Yang

長 is the same one as you wrote and is a radical by itself, the meaning of the word is "long". 長 is the traditional character, the simplified character of 長 is 长. There are about 82 radicals commonly used in Chinese characters, total is over 200. After learning Chinese to some extent, you get to learn and remember pretty much all the radicals, so you can identify them in characters.


List of all the radicals of simplified Chinese characters.

部首列表​

[编辑]

• 1画：一 丨 丿 丶 乛
• 2画：十 厂 匚 卜 冂 八 人 勹 儿 匕 几 亠 冫 冖 凵 卩 刀 力 又 厶 廴
• 3画：干 工 土 艹 寸 廾 大 尢 弋 小 口 囗 山 巾 彳 彡 夕 夂 丬 广 门 宀 辶 彐 尸 己 弓 子 屮 女 飞 马 么 巛
• 4画：王 无 韦 木 支 犬 歹 车 牙 戈 比 瓦 止 攴 日 贝 水 见 牛 手 气 毛 长 片 斤 爪 父 月 氏 欠 风 殳 文 方 火 斗 户 心 毋
• 5画：示 甘 石 龙 业 目 田 罒 皿 生 矢 禾 白 瓜 鸟 疒 立 穴 疋 皮 癶 矛
• 6画：耒 老 耳 臣 覀 而 页 至 虍 虫 肉 缶 舌 竹 臼 自 血 舟 色 齐 衣 羊 米 聿 艮 羽 糸
• 7画：麦 走 赤 豆 酉 辰 豕 卤 里 足 邑 身 釆 谷 豸 龟 角 言 辛
• 8画：青 龺 雨 非 齿 黾 隹 阜 金 鱼 隶
• 9画：革 面 韭 骨 香 鬼 食 音 首
• 10画：髟 鬲 鬥 高
• 11画：黄 麻 鹿
• 12画：鼎 黑 黍
• 13画：鼓 鼠
• 14画：鼻
• 17画：龠

You can learn Chinese using the Latin alphabet Pinyin system to help you and you can use Chinese dictionary using Pinyin too if it is easier for foreigners.

 

[nahtanbob]

Chinese Should Be the Official Language of the World​

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