汉语热

The investigation about the difficulties of foreigners studying Chinese under the background of mandarin fever Abstracts: With the rise of mandarin fever around the whole world, more and more foreigners start learning Chinese. Language is the carrier of culture. Facing the bearing 5000 years history cultural heritage, people from different countries begin to learn Chinese. This article aims at the difficulty in the process of foreigners learning Chinese.

Keywords: foreigners mandarin fever difficulties

Nowadays, our society develops at a full speed and economic globalization emerges in the world. Every country cannot get out this circle and develop itself only. With the economic sustained and rapid development of China, many foreign enterprises, more and more nations and people get interested in learning Chinese and knowing Chinese culture. Therefore the international status of Chinese is getting higher and higher. But under the circumstances of no Chinese foundation and no Chinese background, it is very difficult for many foreigners to study Chinese. For a long time, Chinese is always regarded as one of the most difficult language in the world. Then, why is Chinese so difficult? I would like to talk about it in the next part.

First of all, let us see why the foreigners think that Chinese is so difficult to learn. The doctor David Moser in The University of Michigan write an article called why Chinese is So Dame Hard. The whole article is praising alphabetic language based on the Saxon pan-modernity theory. In that article he list seven reasons.

i.Because the writhing system is ridiculous. He said that it is absolutely true that Chinese is hard because of the huge number of characters one has to learn. And Chinese is not very phonetic, which means that often you just completely forget how to write a character, if there is no obvious semantic clue in the radical, and no helpful phonetic component somewhere in the character ii.Because the language doesn't have the common sense to use an alphabet. The English is so easy because of the skills needed to master the writing system are 26 letters and they are written from left to right ,horizontally, across the page, with spaces to indicate word boundaries. In comparison, Chinese has nothing that corresponds to an alphabet, though there are recurring components that make up the characters. It can be said that the components of Chinese characters are arrayed in two dimensions, rather than in the neat one-dimensional rows of alphabetic writing.

iii.Because even looking up a word in the dictionary is complicated. One of the most unreasonably difficult things about learning Chinese is that merely learning how to look up a word in the dictionary is about the equivalent of an entire semester of secretarial school. Chinese must also be one of the most dictionary-intensive languages on earth for there are various dictionaries.

iv.Because there's classical Chinese (wenyanwen). Classical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind