Chinese language – an overview
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Chinese is a prominent global language with various dialects including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Shanghainese, and Taiwanese. It is tonal and uses characters instead of an alphabet, making it challenging for learners due to its strokes and tonal nature. While machine translation exists, accurate translations are best achieved through professional services, such as those offered by Waterstone Translations.
Chinese language – an overview
- 2. Chinese is one of the famous languages around the world and it is spoken by maximum of population in the world
- 3. Chinese dialect are of many types, some of the most common types are Mandarin Cantonese Hakka Shanghainese Taiwanese
- 4. It is tonal language It has number of strokes
- 5. It doesn’t need grammar like verbs, tenses, etc… It does not have alphabet, the symbol itself delivers the word.
- 6. All Chinese languages regardless of its types, it is difficult for the newbie to learn. Why it is so difficult???Check out further slides
- 7. Alike English Chinese has number of letters to learn to get basic knowledge.
- 8. As said before, Chinese has four tones. People have nothing to do with Chinese language without the knowledge of tones
- 9. The strokes used in Chinese languages is the major factor which makes other language people afraid of Chinese. Tough the stroke rate got reduces in mandarin, the difficulty factor still remains the same.
- 10. As said earlier, Chinese doesn’t depend on grammar, the meaning differs on the sentence delivery where tones also plays major role. So be cautious when you attempt to speak Chinese to the native.
- 11. It is the Romanized letters which reveals the pronunciation of Chinese words. This is introduced to help the non-Chinese people to easily understand the Chinese letters and its pronunciation.
- 12. Among all the Chinese languages, mandarin is used commonly all over china and it is used for business purposes. People who are in Hong Kong used Cantonese And Taiwan people uses Taiwanese
- 13. Chinese translation is not as easy as people thing. People have to acquire knowledge previously mentioned parameters, it was then people can attempt to translate the files or documents
- 14. Though there are number of software's and machine translators for the translation, precise and accurate translation is only got through professionals. To know more about MT and professional translators visit the site http://haripriyahark.blog.com/2015/07/10/m achine-translations-vs-professional- translations/
- 15. Despite all the difficulties Chinese language remains interesting and popular among the people worldwide That because of the interesting character representation and writing method
- 16. These are just the overview on Chinese languages. It is understood that people with basic knowledge in Chinese can translate only paragraphs or files for rough work. When comes to professional translation, it is wise to contact Chinese translation services
- 17. Waterstone Translations is one such translation company with professional translators, they provide services like ◦ Document translation services ◦ Legal translation services To know more, visit the site http://www.waterstonetranslations.com.