Language news!
Rebecca D in Year 7 has recently passed Level 1 of the Youth Chinese Test.
Rebecca regularly attends the Confucius Institute in her own time and has been learning Chinese for a number of years. Rebecca needed to pass tests in both reading and writing Chinese Mandarin hanzi, or characters, which are completely different from English letters.
Did you know that Madarin is:
- The world’s most widely spoken language
- The language of the world’s 2nd largest economy
- A language with a rich and fascinating culture for you to discover with our programme
There is no doubt that written Chinese is difficult to learn – even for the Chinese!
- No subject/verb agreement
- no plurals
- no conjugations
- no tenses
- simple numbering system which is applied to dates and time expressions
- simple conditional sentences
- simple prepositions
Well done Rebecca, we look forward to seeing your progress in this language.
