While much talk has focused upon these well-known, marked cliche-like differences btw Chinese and English, China and USA, people tend to either be unaware of or ignore or forget the fact that huge similarities underlie the two languages and countries, and these similarities are simply stunning, as Shuimo shrewdly observes! ^_^
Stunning similarities btw Chinese and English:
Sunning similarity I:
Both Chinese and English have exactly the same word order and sentence structure!
For example, the following two sentences with the same meaning written in Chinese and English respectively match each other word by word.
他 是 个 好 学生！
He is a good student!
Stunning similarity II:
Both Chinese and English have very few inflections, and if there any, they are very simple!
For example, to express the idea of sth that happens in the past, you just have to add the suffix-like word "了" to the end of a verb in Chinese, just as you add the suffix "ed" to a verb in English. Can't be more simple!
Stunning similarity III:
Both Chinese and English have a wide rich variety of regional dialects and varieties, yet the written language remains pretty much the same!
In Chinese, there are many many dialects, like Wu dialect spoken around the Yangtse Delta, Gan dialect in Jiangxi Province, Kejia dialect in Fujian Province, and then the so called Cantonese is the more well known one........ just like English has many regional varieties, like Cockney English, Scotish English, General American English, Australian English.
Stunning similarities btw China and America:
Sunning similarity I:
Both China and America are BIG countries in a very physical sense!
China has 9,600,000 sq kilometers' land while America about 9,400,000, both stretching across a vastly expansive landmass in either the eastern or western hemispheres! And of course with an equally large amount of population,though China still beats America out of sight population wise.
Sunning similarity II:
Both China and America are huge immigrant countries!
While America is internationally oriented towards immigation, China's immigration is chiefly domestically oriented!
Stunning similarity III:
Both Chinese and Americans have an incurable obsession with being large, big, bigger, and biggest, anything that is aimed to impress! Americans would like to live an extravagant life, so do the Chinese! Both nations build large cities with large roads flooded with large cars driven by people eager to have large houses!
Both of them want to have the best ever things in their life!
Stunning similarity IV:
Both Chinese and Americans have supreme confidence and belief in their own culture/civilization!
The Chinese always regard their country as the center of the world (and it indeed was and is now restoring the reputation), just as their country's name "China" in the Chinese language suggests——中国 "Zhong Guo" just means nothing else but THE MIDDLE KINGDOM! Whereas Americans believe they are god's chosen people, and never for a moment foregt to remind themselves "god bless America".
So, the next big question:
What wud happen when the two big wheels of the world run into each other? Give rein to yr imagination!O(∩_∩)O
Stunning similarities btw Chinese and English:
Sunning similarity I:
Both Chinese and English have exactly the same word order and sentence structure!
For example, the following two sentences with the same meaning written in Chinese and English respectively match each other word by word.
他 是 个 好 学生！
He is a good student!
Stunning similarity II:
Both Chinese and English have very few inflections, and if there any, they are very simple!
For example, to express the idea of sth that happens in the past, you just have to add the suffix-like word "了" to the end of a verb in Chinese, just as you add the suffix "ed" to a verb in English. Can't be more simple!
Stunning similarity III:
Both Chinese and English have a wide rich variety of regional dialects and varieties, yet the written language remains pretty much the same!
In Chinese, there are many many dialects, like Wu dialect spoken around the Yangtse Delta, Gan dialect in Jiangxi Province, Kejia dialect in Fujian Province, and then the so called Cantonese is the more well known one........ just like English has many regional varieties, like Cockney English, Scotish English, General American English, Australian English.
Stunning similarities btw China and America:
Sunning similarity I:
Both China and America are BIG countries in a very physical sense!
China has 9,600,000 sq kilometers' land while America about 9,400,000, both stretching across a vastly expansive landmass in either the eastern or western hemispheres! And of course with an equally large amount of population,though China still beats America out of sight population wise.
Sunning similarity II:
Both China and America are huge immigrant countries!
While America is internationally oriented towards immigation, China's immigration is chiefly domestically oriented!
Stunning similarity III:
Both Chinese and Americans have an incurable obsession with being large, big, bigger, and biggest, anything that is aimed to impress! Americans would like to live an extravagant life, so do the Chinese! Both nations build large cities with large roads flooded with large cars driven by people eager to have large houses!
Both of them want to have the best ever things in their life!
Stunning similarity IV:
Both Chinese and Americans have supreme confidence and belief in their own culture/civilization!
The Chinese always regard their country as the center of the world (and it indeed was and is now restoring the reputation), just as their country's name "China" in the Chinese language suggests——中国 "Zhong Guo" just means nothing else but THE MIDDLE KINGDOM! Whereas Americans believe they are god's chosen people, and never for a moment foregt to remind themselves "god bless America".
So, the next big question:
What wud happen when the two big wheels of the world run into each other? Give rein to yr imagination!O(∩_∩)O