“Please” and “Thank You” are some of the most common courtesies in English. However, generally speaking, You may find Chinese immigrants or individuals whose first language is Chinese not use such courtesies as often as those who’ve been...
Chinese pronunciation is difficult for those whose first language is English, as the two languages share very little in terms of phonetics, but it can be mastered quickly once the basic principles of the Chinese...
While some in the West are under the assumption that the “Chinese language” is just Cantonese. The fact is, Cantonese is merely one of the eight major dialects spoken in China.
In Chinese, each syllable (or character) has a tone, and in Mandarin there are four tones. In PinYin(Chinese Phonetics), the mark above a syllable indicates its tone: ( ˉ ) first tone, ( ́...