restore什么意思difference between Chinese and English

2021年1月19日发(作者：mondial)

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
.
Dipthongs
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
.
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
.
The difficulties of pronouncing individual English words, compounded by
problems
with
intonation,
result
in
the
heavily
accented
English
of
many
Chinese learners. In some cases, even learners with perfect grammar may
be very hard to understand.