Culture project: China by Natalia Lysogor https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c Natalia Lysogor en-us 2020-12-03 08:11:38 UTC 2025-03-14 03:40:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1e8-1f1f3.png Population lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982891047 About 1,393 people]]> 2020-12-03 08:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982891047 Languages lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982891322 In china there are spoken a lot of languages, like the Mandarin, the Yue or the Hakka. In total there are 300 different languages, and the official one is the Mandarin, a mixt of different dialects, and it’s spoken by more than 1100 millions people.

]]> 2020-12-03 08:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982891322 Common expressions lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982892132 Thank you (xiè xie) 谢谢
You’re welcome  (bú yòng xiè) 不用谢
Hello (nǐ hǎo) 你好
Good bye (zài jiàn) 再见

]]> 2020-12-03 08:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982892132 Interesting facts lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982893259 1) The Sinitic languages are the group of languages spoken in china that are very different of each other, like the different romance languages in Europe. The most important Sinitic language is the Chinese mandarin.
2) Not all people who live in China can speak mandarin Chinese. Just people who live in Peking or at Peking’s influence area. Those who don’t live at Peking’s influence just can understand mandarin, and they speak other Sinitic languages.

]]> 2020-12-03 08:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982893259 Famous people lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982893702 1)Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee (actors an martial arts champions).
2) Fan Bingbing (actress and pop singer).
]]> 2020-12-03 08:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982893702 Favourite word lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982894159 梦 (meng)
To dream: this character can be separated in two parts. The top part means “forest”, and the low one means “sunset”.

]]> 2020-12-03 08:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982894159 Alphabet lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982894798 In China there is no alphabet because they use basic characters that have their own meaning, and they create new words with combinations of these characters. Also we have the translation of our alphabet to Chinese characters.]]> 2020-12-03 08:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982894798 History of the language lysogornat https://padlet.com/lysogornat/eydeutuuwowgpk3c/wish/982895885 Chinese passed of being the Zhou dynasties’ language at the XII a.C. century, to being the most spoken language all over the world. This language wasn’t interrupted since the second century before Christ. Because of that it is categorized in three important groups: archaic Chinese (century XII a.C.-VI a.C.), medieval Chinese (century VI a.C.-X d.C.) and modern Chinese (century X- to our days).

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