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I n Chinese would become 1, with a comma effectively 1 ten thousand. Follow Me. Comment Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Hey LTL, really like the post and learnt a lot about Numbers. The videos were super useful, thanks John Reply. Am happy that am getting it all right because of your wonderful teaching Reply. Super happy to hear that Reply. Thank you for the nice explanations. They open so many doors! LTL Team Reply. Those are the tone markers, and in this case they are both slightly different.
These two characters have different tones so they are not exactly the same pronunciation. When you first learn to write Chinese, you'll discover a foreign pronunciation system, a foreign tonal system and a very foreign writing system.
As an English speaker, you can normally have a good shot at pronouncing and reading words in other European languages, thanks to the shared alphabet. Chinese, on the other hand, sucker-punches you on day one… but gets a little more gentle as you go along.
That's not to say there isn't a lot of work involved, only to say that it's not particularly difficult. Time-consuming, yes. Difficult, no. This is quite different from European languages, which start off easy, but quickly escalate in difficulty as you encounter complicated grammar, tenses, case endings, technical vocabulary and so on.
Making words from Chinese characters you already know is easy and really fun. This is where you get to start snapping the lego blocks together and build that Pirate Island! This is a set of building blocks that has evolved over 5, years in a relatively linear progression.
And you can't exactly say the same about the English language! English is a diverse and rich language, but that comes with its drawbacks — a case-by-case spelling system that drives learners mad.
It extends throughout the language. To take an extreme example let's look at Jurassic Park. The other day I watched Jurassic Park with my Chinese girlfriend. OK, re -watched. It's a classic! Part of the fun for me annoyance for her was asking her the Chinese for various dinosaur species. Don't try to memorise these characters, just appreciate the underlying logic of how the complex concepts are constructed. I couldn't spell half of these dinosaur names in English for this article.
But once I knew how the construction of the Chinese word, typing in the right characters was simple. Once you know a handful of characters, you can start to put together complete words, and knowing how to write in Chinese suddenly becomes a lot easier. In a lot of cases you can take educated guesses at concepts and get them right by combining known characters into unknown words. For more on this, check my series of Chinese character images that I publish on this page.
This means that once you've learned a handful of characters vocabulary acquisition speeds up exponentially. Before diving into learning characters, make sure you have a decent grounding in Chinese pronunciation via the pinyin system.
The reason for this is that taking on pronunciation, tones and characters from day one is really tough. Don't get me wrong, you can do it. Especially if you're highly motivated. But for most people there's a better way. With some spoken language under your belt, and an understanding of pronunciation and tones, starting to learn how to write in Chinese will seem a whole lot easier.
When you're ready, here's how to use all the information from this article and deal with written Chinese in a sensible way. I've got a systematic approach to written Chinese which you can find in detail on Sensible Chinese. If you're working on the wrong material then you're wasting your efforts.
Instead choose to learn Chinese characters that you are like to want to use in the future.
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