The Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is one of the most anticipated and celebrated holidays in China.
The date of the festival is determined by the Lunar calendar and can fall anywhere between January 21 and February 20. The festival is not only an important holiday in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, but it is also observed in areas with major Chinese diasporas, such as Singapore.
Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the festival is the longest holiday of the year. Festivities can go on for as long as sixteen days, and the first seven days are public holidays that are taken off from work.
Here are some of the common Chinese New Year greetings:
- 新年快乐 (xīn nián kuài lè) - Happy New Year!
- 恭喜发财 (gōng xǐ fā cái) - May you have a prosperous New Year!
- 万事如意 (wànshì rúyì) - May everything go as you hope!
- 心想事成 (xīn xiǎng shì chéng) - May all your wishes come true!
Check out this article to learn about Chinese New Year traditions and sayings that you can use around the new year: Chinese New Year Vocabulary.
One of the common challenges the beginners face while learning Chinese is the overwhelming amount of info they need to remember.
Chinese teachers and learning resources tend to teach too much content that is often not immediately useful for learners.So don’t try to learn everything at once!
The essential aspects your need to memorize are verbs, adjectives, nouns, and grammar:Verbs and adjectives are quite easy to grasp as there are not so many of them.
About 300 words in total, maybe 1000 if you really want to learn all of them.Grammar is also quite simple.
There are no tenses, no plurals, no genders, and no conjugations.The problem is the nouns.
Learning programs usually contain many nouns we never use.It's recommended to focus your memorizing efforts on verbs, adjectives, grammar, and 2 or 3 hundreds of nouns in the first few months.
How to learn Chinese language?
And it all began almost 8 thousand years ago, when the first plants and animals were domesticated in the Chinese Lowlands, and then the Chinese civilization began to develop.
Chinese is currently one of the most popular exotic languages taught by Europeans.
The writing that connects the Chinese
What unites the Chinese is not language, but writing, or Chinese signs.
This means that if you know the appropriate number of characters you can read both The text from the daily newspaper as well as the text from thousands of years ago.
