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• The great Olympic champion swimmer Micheal Phelps said It`s easier to win eight gold medals at the Olympic Games than it is to learn Chinese. • It`s no exaggeration.He is right.
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard ? 讲课人
Lessons to be learnt
背景知识 课文大意
单词短语 句子语法
背景 知识
Because the ridiculous Russian
writing
system
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But The most fascinating scripts in the world. Another Aspect Hard in comparison to Spanish, Greek,
• Learning thousands of characters is a chore. • Even using a dictionary has it`s own set of problems.
• If you want to know the means of a word you have to spend some time to know the radical of the word.
compare to & compare with
Translate the following sentences into Chinese and find differences between compare to and compare with.
1. Poets have compared sleep to death.
Translate the following sentence into Chinses.
When you are completely alone, there is no one to compare to. 当你完全独自一人时,就不再有东西可以对比。
How does the China earthquake compare to other recent disasters? 中国地震和近期其他地震的对比如何?
单词 短语
thought-provoking [θɔt] [prə'voʊkɪŋ] a. interesting in a way that makes you think of new ideas or that changes your attitude to sth. 发人深思的; 引起思考的 e.g. 1. Filling out the application was a long thoughtprovoking process. 填写申请书是个时间长、费脑筋的过程。 2. He has produced a well written and thoughtprovoking book. 他创作出了一本文笔优美、发人深思的书。 Word family: provoke v. cause a reaction or feeling, especially a sudden one 激起,引起 e.g. The President's speech provoked much discussion. 总统的演说引发了许多议论。
compare with: be worthy to be compared with sb. or sth.
vary from… to…
change, especially according to some factor
Translate the following sentences.
1.Prices vary from one shop to another. 各家商店价格不同。 2.我们的风俗习惯各不相同。 Our customs vary from place to place. 3.对于这件事的看法,因人而异。 Opinions about this issue vary from person to person.
And then he mentions that learning Chinese is a hard process. He said the long march is a stroll in the park ,compared to what it`s like to learn Chinese.
诗人把睡眠比作死亡。 compare to: show the likeness between sb./sth. and sb./ sth. else 2. He can not compare with Shakespeare as a writer of tragedies. 在悲剧写作方面他根本不能与莎士比亚相比。
isolated 【ˈ aɪsəˈlet ɪd】 a. 1) happening only once, or existing only in one place 个别的;孤立的 e. g. This is not an isolated incident. 2) feeling alone and unhappy, with no friends to support you 孤单的,孤独的 e. g. Young mothers often feel isolated. 年轻的母亲总是感到孤立无援。 3) an isolated building, village etc. is far away from any others (建筑、村庄等)孤零零的,偏僻的 e.g. Not many people visit this isolated spot. 来这个偏远地区的人不多。 Word family: isolate v. isolation n.
课文 大意
• Main idea
This article mainly tells the experience of learning Chinese for foreigners.
At the beginning, the author draws the importance of learning Chinese through the perspective of economic trade.
句子 语法
Difficult sentence 1
First of all, learning thousands of characters is a chore, and there's nothing for it but to learn them by heart. (Para 7)
首先,学习几千个汉字就是一件苦差事, 除了把它们牢记在心之外,没有别的办法。
Because tonal languages are weird
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mathematic s
Because east is east and west is west, and the twain have only recently met. East West
Word formation: - provoking: tending to cause sth. to happen 容易引发某事的 e.g. 1. a criticism-provoking proposal 一 个容易招致批评的提议 2. a debate-provoking novel 一本 引发争论的小说
近义词汇;isolated Solitary [ˈ sɑ:ləteri] adj. being alone;single;lonesome独自的,独立的; 单个的; 唯一的; 隐居的; lonely [ˈ loʊnli] adj. unhappy because of being alone or without friends;寂寞的; 孤独的,孤单的; 荒凉的,幽 静的; 在孤单中度过的; alone [əˈlo ʊn] adj. apart from other persons or things;单独的; 独一 无二的; 独自的; solo [ˈ soʊloʊ] adj. done by a single person;without a companion or partner;独奏的; 独唱的; 单独的; 独自地;
be twinned with
set up a special relationship between two towns or organizations in different countries
Translate the following sentence.
Paris is twinned with Beijing. 巴黎和北京结成姊妹城市。
武汉已经和16座国外城市结成了友好城市。
Wuhan has been twinned with 16 foreign cities.
compare to
examine people or things to see how they are alike and how they are different
characters are arrayed in two dimensions, rather than in the neat one-dimensional rows of alphabetic writing.
Then there's classical Chinese (wen yan wen)
vary from… to…
We can use these phrases in our writing.
vary from person to person vary from country to country vary from unit to unit vary from case to case vary from place to place 因人而异 ; 在人与人不同 ; 对不同人 因国情而异 各不相同 ; 单位各不相同 因事而异 因地而异
• A character can have different meanings according to the tone used to pronounce.And it`s easy to get hopelessly wrong.
• The good news is the grammar is easier than many European languages.
e.g. I am a solitary person - 我是独身主义者. I am isolated - 我被隔离. I am lonely - 我很孤独. I am alone - 我是独身./ 只有我一个人. It's my solo action - 这是我的个人行为. 其中表示孤独的只有solitary和lonely.不过 solitary作为形容词只能修饰名词,没有I am solitary的说法.
There + be + nothing for it but … can be used before a noun clause to emphasize that this is the only possible choice or course of action.
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the simplified characters
Spanish
Greek
theRussian traditional characters.
Because the language doesn't have the common sense to use an alphabet. The components of Chinese