Chinese Notes - Classical Chinese 汉语笔记 - 古文. 目录 Contents 导言 Introduction When learning modern Chinese there is good motivation for studying some of the basics of classical Chinese. The similarities are surprising and the differences interesting as well. Native English speakers may wonder about the relevance of this when making an analogy of modern English to Old English or perhaps modern Italian to Latin. Perhaps because written Chinese can be read independently of pronunciation it has survived in such a recognizable form for so long and been used over a very broad geographic area, including all of East Asia. In fact, classical Chinese is far more commonly encountered in China than Old English or Latin is encountered in the West.
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