Symbols for Chinese New Year

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Part of the video series: Chinese Symbols for Kinship Terms & Holidays

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Summary: Learn the symbols for “Chinese New Year” with tips on writing and pronouncing Chinese characters from a Chinese language specialist in this free video on Chinese words and phrases.

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By Xi Chen
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Xi Chen got her Certificate of Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language in 2005, one of less than 5,000 certificate holders across China. Recently, she was newly appointed program...read more

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"Chinese writing is very different from most other languages in the world. In the Chinese writing system, Chinese symbols represent each character which corresponds to a single spoken syllable. A majority of words in all modern varieties of Chinese require two or more characters to write. Many Chinese characters were adopted according to their meaning by the Japanese and Korean languages to represent native words, disregarding pronunciation altogether. Chinese characters are also considered to be the world's longest continuously used writing system."

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