Sir,
nobody
April 27, 2013, 9:52am
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Before starting to read a Chinese lesson here, you need to inform yourself somehow (books, internet) about the writing system (simplified and traditional characters (“Simp/Trad”) and about the romanization system (“Pinyin” and other).
Wikipedia is a good start to learn the basics:
Chinese[c] (中文; Zhōngwén,[d] especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.
Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be dialects of ...
Chinese characters[a] are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as their profound historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world by number of users.
The total number of Chinese characters ever to appear in a dictionary is in the tens of ...
Simplified Chinese characters are one type of standard Chinese character sets. Along with traditional Chinese characters, they are one of the two standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the People's Republic of China in mainland China has promoted them for use in printing since the 1950s and 1960s to encourage literacy. They are officially used in the People's Republic of China, Malaysia and Singapore, while traditional Chinese characters remain Si...
Traditional Chinese characters are one set of standard Chinese characters used for written Chinese. Their modern shapes first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty beginning around 200 BC, and were standardized with the introduction of the regular script beginning in the 2nd century AD. They remained the standard form of printed Chinese characters or literary Chinese throughout the Sinosphere until the middle of the 20th century, when various countr Traditio...
Hanyu Pinyin (simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; pinyin: hànyǔ pīnyīn), often shortened to just pinyin, is the foremost romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese. It is used in either a formal, educational or official capacity in countries where the language is official, which are the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) and Singapore, as well as in the United Nations (UN). It is principally used to teach Mandarin, normally written with...
If you don’t see Chinese characters you need to install East Asian language support.
http://tinyurl.com/8r4fg7o