Modern Chinese refers to the common language of the modern Han nation, which is Mandarin with Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, Northern dialect as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular works as the grammatical standard.

1. In terms of pronunciation: the syllables have clear boundaries, there are many musical tones, and the changes in pitch and intonation make it highly musical. The specific manifestations are as follows:

(1) There are no complex consonants

(2) Vowels are dominant in the syllables

(3) Tone with distinctive meaning< /p>

(4) The total number of syllables is limited, short and clear

2. Vocabulary

(1) The basic form of morphemes is monosyllable

(2) Compounding methods are widely used to form new words

(3) Disyllabic words are dominant

3. Grammar: Chinese is an analytical language and lacks grammatical meaning. Part-of-speech markers and word form changes give modern Chinese a series of characteristics:

(1) Word order and function words are the main means of expressing grammatical meaning

(2) Grammar The (lexical, syntactic) structure is consistent

(3) Words are multifunctional: a certain type of word can often serve as a variety of sentence components

(4) Word combinations are affected by semantics , Contextual constraints

(5) Quantifiers and modal particles are very rich: different nouns often use different quantifiers, and modal particles often appear at the end of sentences to express the subtle differences in various moods

Advantages of Chinese:

Chinese characters have been written for five thousand years. Although Chinese has many dialects due to phonetic differences, it does not affect the understanding of written Chinese characters between people.

Chinese is a relatively convergent and stable language. This enables the inheritance and development of ancestral wisdom and civilization. Today's Chinese students can read catchy Chu poems by Qu Yuan, a poet from 2,000 years ago.

English is a divergent and unstable language. English spelling was unified only 400 years ago, and it is still difficult for English graduates to read Shakespeare's original works written 300 years ago.