City of Eternal Spring

chinese language
Enjoyed your blog a lot and thanks for sharing your experience! Comment on English languge: Chinese as a language appears difficult and cumbersome if you look at it as a user of phonetic language. When learned as first languge, it is rather easy to acquire. By grade 3, I was able to read newspaper. With thousand of years' of experience, I believe the Chinese have figured a painless way to pass on the language to the next generation. I am not aware that Pinyin was Albanian. Pinyin uses romanized alphabets to standardize chinese mandarin pronunciation (Taiwan uses a different system). It is (supposedly) taught in schools. But once learnt, it is probably discarded as the "characters"become the daily written and ready form. Although Chinese and Japanese are very different languages, Japanese uses Chinese characters for their meaning and sound to write its language. Both languages use same character for "East". Mainland China uses the simpliefied version and therefore looks a little different vs q PS. In general, I am at awe at your level of knowledge on Chinese culture, history and geography.