Summary and Response

The Chinese language, its history and current usage

Chinese is generally considered a beautiful and import language, also it is viewed a difficult language. Now more and more people who speak English are learning the Chinese language, and some of them learning very well. However, Written Chinese is more difficult than spoken Chinese, because Chinese character looks like some strange code lumps together.
For all students who want study Chinese, Chinese is Putonghua, the popular and official language in China. Actually in Mainland China there are so many dialects and Putonghua is the most popular language for people from different place to distinguish between their different local accents.
The English speaker who starts to learn Chinese will find that sometimes Chinese is similar to most other languages. Chinese has some words in common with English, or which are written in an alphabetic script. The Chinese learner will discover that nearly all words in Chinese are made up of other simpler words. And lots of words were invented 3,000 years ago.
Nowadays, Chinese has borrowed so many words from other languages and still uses the same meaning. Also there are a certain number of unfamiliar words.

Response:

This book introduces the modern Chinese as it is used in China during the first few years of the 21Th century. And also this book is written for people who are thinking of learning Chinese or who have started learning it already. Also in this book people could find some knowledge about Chinese character culture.
Most foreigner think learning Chinese is a good way to understand China. Also from this book people could find many shortcuts to lean some simple Chinese words or sentences. But the most important reason I chose this book is that, from this book, I got some foreigner’s opinion about Chinese language and Chinese character, and why more and more people learning Chinese.

Reference: The Chinese language: its history and current usage, Daniel Kane, 2006, Tuttle Publishing