Chinese and English are better or worse 20

There is no such thing as a good or bad language.

This kind of question is the same as asking which country is better.

Each language fulfills its role of expressing the human mind in its own way.

1. There are few Chinese characters. There are only 3,500 commonly used Chinese characters and 7,000 common characters. The English vocabulary has now exceeded 1 million;

2. The amount of information in Chinese is large. Chinese is one of the most concise languages in the world.

3. Chinese is easy to understand, Chinese has multiple meanings and can be connected, and English words have multiple meanings and no connection;

4. Beyond time and space, classical Chinese and modern Chinese can be interpreted interchangeably, and it is difficult to read English articles in ancient times;

5. Chinese thinking speed is fast and easy to identify;

6. Chinese grammar is simple, no verb conjugation, singular and plural, yin and yang conjugation, etc.;

7. The speed of Chinese characters input into the computer is fast, which has been proven by Microsoft;

8. Chinese characters can be read vertically;

9. The writing of Chinese characters is an art;

10. Chinese characters are the only characters that last for 5,000 years.

Chinese and English, one of which is the most widely spoken language in the world, and the other is the most widely spoken language in the world, fully illustrates that these two have some unique characteristics.

Advantages of the Chinese language:

1. There are many words and rich expressions.

There are many words in the Chinese language, which can express the same meaning with multiple words, and different words or words can exist with the same pronunciation, which makes the Chinese language have rich expression functions and rich cultural characteristics.

2. Concise, short and concise.

Chinese characters are ideographic scripts, so the least amount of Chinese characters needed to express the same meaning is in all languages, and more words and space are needed in other languages to convey the same meaning. Among the communiqués issued by various United Nations conferences and conferences in various languages, the Chinese version has the least length and is very paper-saving.

Disadvantages of the Chinese language:

1. The most difficult language to learn.

The first advantage of Chinese has also become the disadvantage of Chinese, and there are four tones in Chinese, which makes it difficult to learn Chinese. Foreigners learning Chinese are often troubled by tones, multiple words and a high vocabulary memory.

2. Confusing expressions.

Chinese expressions are prone to ambiguity, and in daily life, the same sentence is reversed back and forth with the same meaning, and the same sentence has different meanings for different stresses, and so on. In some areas that require rigorous expression, such as the legal field, it is generally accepted that English is the most rigorous, while there are many ambiguities in Chinese.

The advantages and disadvantages of English are the opposite of Chinese. Compared with Chinese, English has the characteristics of simple grammatical structure and no tone, and it is easier to learn.

The main differences between English and Chinese.

1. Linguistic typology.

English is a subject-first language, with a strong emphasis on sentence structure, which is manifested in the fact that the subject is indispensable, so even if the subject has no semantic role, it must exist, even if it is a "pseudo-positional" subject made by it, there, etc. The predicate should be consistent with the subject in terms of person and quantity.

Chinese is a topic-first language, with more emphasis on situation, conveying information through the establishment of scenarios, loose sentence structure, and sometimes even no subject.

Second, thinking is different.

In terms of expression, Chinese pays more attention to roundabouts and progressives, starting and turning, often first saying reasons and then leading to conclusions, while English is more straightforward.

3. There are many long sentences in English and short sentences in Chinese.

Since English is the language of the "rule of law", many meanings can often be expressed in a long sentence, as long as there are no structural errors; In Chinese, on the other hand, because of the "rule of man", the semantics are directly expressed through words, and different meanings are often expressed through different short sentences.

Fourth, there are many clauses in English and clauses in Chinese.

English sentences can not only make sentences longer with long modifiers in simple sentences, but also can be complicated with clauses, and these clauses are often connected to the main clause or other clauses by means of clause introductory words, and the whole sentence is a whole despite its superficial intricacies.

Chinese likes to use short sentences, and the expression structure is relatively loose, and the subordinate clauses in English sentences often become clauses when translated into Chinese.

5. Subject, object and other noun components "English polypronouns, Chinese polymorphs" In sentences, English mostly uses nouns and prepositions, and Chinese uses verbs.

English not only has pronouns such as we, you, he, and they, but also relational pronouns such as that and which, and in long and complex sentences, English often uses many pronouns in order to make the sentence structure correct and the semantics clear, while avoiding repetition in expression.

Although there are pronouns in Chinese, due to the relatively loose structure and relatively short sentences, too many pronouns cannot be used in Chinese, and the use of nouns often makes the semantics clearer.

6. English is more passive, and Chinese is more active.

English prefers to use the passive voice, especially technical English. Although there are also words such as "be" and "by" in Chinese to indicate that the action is passive, this expression is far less common than the passive voice of English, so the passive in English often becomes active in Chinese translation.

This is a big question, and when it comes to "essence", I don't dare to say what is the essence of the Chinese language easily, but I can briefly talk about it according to the points you mentioned. When we talk about a language, we generally talk about semantics, phonetics, grammar, "writing" and "culture" in questioning, which do not belong to the category of language, or rather, they are at best interdisciplinary, not essential. First of all, English is an inflection language, Indo-European language, and Chinese is an isolated language, Sino-Tibetan.

Chinese is a non-morphological language, lacking morphological markers, word order and virtual words are important grammatical means, English, needless to say, various inflections, grammatical devices are explicit. In addition, I agree with the characteristics of Chinese grammar summarized by Mr. **Xi in "Grammar Q&A": "First, there is no simple one-to-one correspondence between Chinese word classes and syntactic components (that is, commonly known as sentence components); Second, the construction principle of Chinese sentences is basically the same as that of phrases.

The specific explanation can go to the book, this book is very thin, more than 80 pages, the language is easy to understand and interesting, I think it can basically answer some of your questions, recommended. Phonetics, Chinese from the Chinese characters are monosyllable, English word (word) monophonic double tone polyphonic have, it should be noted that the word is the smallest language unit that can be used independently, and the original Chinese word is one, a word is a word, but modern Chinese is already a two-syllable word dominance, so there is a difference, do not confuse the concept of word (character) and word (word). Furthermore, there are no compound consonants in Chinese, and tones distinguish meanings.

What do you mean by word formation? But I see your own answer isn't about word formation, it's just a, well, subjective feelings. The difference in word formation should be that English uses more derivation and affixes, while Chinese uses more compound methods and fewer affixes.

When you say writing, you should mean the writing system. For Chinese, it is impossible to accurately restore the pronunciation of foreign languages, and for English, it is impossible to directly use pinyin to express the meaning of foreign languages, so it can only be borrowed and existing in the national language as foreign words for a long time. This is why it is difficult to find that this is a foreign word in Chinese for a long time, with a high degree of localization, while a large number of foreign language loanwords in English can still be found from pronunciation**, but the degree of localization is low.

Which is better, the angle is different, the conclusion is different.

The biggest difference between English and Chinese is the way of thinking, and if the way of thinking is solved, there is no difference between the others.

There are many differences, mainly logical.

1. There are few Chinese characters. There are only 3,500 commonly used Chinese characters and 7,000 common characters. The English vocabulary has now exceeded 1 million;

2. The amount of information in Chinese is large. Chinese is one of the most concise languages in the world.

3. Chinese is easy to understand, Chinese has multiple meanings and can be connected, and English words have multiple meanings and no connection;

4. Beyond time and space, classical Chinese and modern Chinese can be interpreted interchangeably, and it is difficult to read English articles in ancient times;

5. Chinese thinking speed is fast and easy to identify;

6. Chinese Song Hall is resistant to simple grammar and wild spring, no verb conjugation, singular and plural, yin and yang conjugation, etc.;

7. The speed of Chinese characters input into the computer is fast, which has been proven by Microsoft;

8. Chinese characters can be read vertically;

9. The writing of Chinese characters is an art;

10. Chinese characters are the only characters that last for 5,000 years.

Advantages: 1) Regardless of the dialect, you can write the calendar in Chinese characters, even Japanese and Chinese in different language families. As a result, the Chinese civilization circle has a huge number of historical documents that can be read by today's people, and the largest written language reading circle that has changed rapidly.

For example, when communicating with Japanese people, you can only write without speaking.

2) The large amount of information in each Chinese character makes the Chinese text generally thinner and more efficient to read.

3) There are no morphological changes in most languages, such as -ed, -s, etc. You don't have to memorize a lot of grammar rules.

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1) It is too difficult to write Chinese characters, and it is difficult to popularize written language education internationally. The slow writing speed is also a problem. Elementary school students spend too much time memorizing Chinese characters, and pinyin characters mainly rely on memorization and do not memorize how to write.

Chinese characters, like the ancient Egyptian script, were too difficult to write, and although they were located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, the script never spread beyond the Nile Valley.

2) The existence of traditional and simplified Chinese characters is not conducive to cross-strait exchanges and reading of ancient books. The ancient Egyptian script was greatly simplified in the later period, and it still did not go out of the Nile. It is still pinyin characters that pass through the world.

3) The grammar is not clear, and it has been very troublesome.

All of the above is relative to the phonetic writing system. As far as ideograms are concerned, Chinese characters are much simpler and faster to write than Mayan and ancient Egyptian in antiquity and medieval times. Compared with Sumerian script with complex lines, Chinese characters are more ideographic.

It can be said that it has evolved better than the other three ancient scripts.