灵鹊做题网英语短文 英语与汉语的区别
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英语短文 英语与汉语的区别
The differences between English and Chinese
Introduction:There is not one single Chinese language,but many different versions or dialects including Wu,Cantonese and Taiwanese.Northern Chinese,also known as Mandarin,is the mother tongue of about 70% of Chinese speakers and is the accepted written language for all Chinese.Belonging to two different language families,English and Chinese have many significant differences.This makes learning English a serious challenge for Chinese native speakers.
Alphabet:Chinese does not have an alphabet but uses a logographic system for its written language.In logographic systems symbols represent the words themselves - words are not made up of various letters as in alphabetic systems.Because of this fundamental difference,Chinese learners may have great difficulty reading English texts and spelling words correctly.
Phonology:Most aspects of the English phonological system cause difficulties for Chinese learners.Some English phonemes do not exist in Chinese; stress and intonation patterns are different.Unlike English,Chinese is a tone language.This means that it uses the pitch (highness or lowness) of a phoneme sound to distinguish word meaning.In English,changes in pitch are used to emphasize or express emotion,not to give a different word meaning to the sound.
English has more vowel sounds than Chinese,resulting in the faulty pronunciation of words like ship/sheep,it/eat,full/fool.diphthongs such as in weigh,now or deer are often shortened to a single sound.
Chinese learners find it difficult to hear the difference between l and r,and so may mispronounce rake and rice as lake and lice.Southern Chinese speakers have a similiar difficulty in distinguishing l and n.
A major problem is with the common final consonant in English.This feature is much less frequent in Chinese and results in learners either failing to produce the consonant or adding an extra vowel at the end of the word.For example,hill may be pronounced as if without the double ll but with a drawn out i,or as rhyming with killer.
Introduction:There is not one single Chinese language,but many different versions or dialects including Wu,Cantonese and Taiwanese.Northern Chinese,also known as Mandarin,is the mother tongue of about 70% of Chinese speakers and is the accepted written language for all Chinese.Belonging to two different language families,English and Chinese have many significant differences.This makes learning English a serious challenge for Chinese native speakers.
Alphabet:Chinese does not have an alphabet but uses a logographic system for its written language.In logographic systems symbols represent the words themselves - words are not made up of various letters as in alphabetic systems.Because of this fundamental difference,Chinese learners may have great difficulty reading English texts and spelling words correctly.
Phonology:Most aspects of the English phonological system cause difficulties for Chinese learners.Some English phonemes do not exist in Chinese; stress and intonation patterns are different.Unlike English,Chinese is a tone language.This means that it uses the pitch (highness or lowness) of a phoneme sound to distinguish word meaning.In English,changes in pitch are used to emphasize or express emotion,not to give a different word meaning to the sound.
English has more vowel sounds than Chinese,resulting in the faulty pronunciation of words like ship/sheep,it/eat,full/fool.diphthongs such as in weigh,now or deer are often shortened to a single sound.
Chinese learners find it difficult to hear the difference between l and r,and so may mispronounce rake and rice as lake and lice.Southern Chinese speakers have a similiar difficulty in distinguishing l and n.
A major problem is with the common final consonant in English.This feature is much less frequent in Chinese and results in learners either failing to produce the consonant or adding an extra vowel at the end of the word.For example,hill may be pronounced as if without the double ll but with a drawn out i,or as rhyming with killer.