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Internet Chinese - Q&A
Q0.
What Is Internet-Chinese® ?
A0. Simply, Internet-Chinese® Is Mandarin-Chinese™.
Q1. But what is Mandarin-Chinese?
A1. Mandarin-Chinese is Peking dialect written
with the Pinyin Alphabet of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Q2. And what is Pinyin
Alphabet?
A2. Pinyin
Alphabet is the same 26 English Letters
used
to standardize the pronunciation of all Chinese characters,
both modern simplified and the ancient traditional.
Q3. Who standardized Chinese Pinyin alphabet?
A3. People’s
Congress of the PRC in Beijing, 1958.
Q4. And who simplified the
ancient beautiful traditional Chinese Characters
and why?
A4. Standardized by the
Chinese Language
Reform Committee, mandated
by the same PRC Congress.
Q5. And what is the real intent
of Chinese Language Reform?
A5. Chinese
Language Reform has 3 reasons:
(i) Spread Mandarin as the Standard
General
Speech in class rooms, workplaces and
mass media. (ii)
Use Pinyin to speed up the learning
of Chinese characters.
And (iii) Simplify Chinese characters
to modernize global education and for
world
communication.
Q6. Who, besides China uses
Pinyin for communication?
A6. Pinyin was adopted
in 1979 by the United
Nations, since then foreigners everywhere
are learning
Mandarin Pinyin, for worldwide
cultural interchanges and international
communications.
Q7. In this worldwide
cultural interchanges, does that mean China is going to
abandon her ancient,
beautiful Chinese Characters?
A7.
Oh, no. On the contrary, as 1421
website
Synopsis
of Evidence attests
that in worldwide cultural interchanges,
the beauty of Chinese Characters
will spread along
with English
letters to every rural corner and
to all school children of our Global
Internet
Village, from
East to West.
Q8. Does that mean everyone
must learn both Chinese
characters and English
letters? But
why?
A8.
Yes, both. And why not! Since
both Chinese characters and English
letters carry
beauty and truth. Ultimately
beauty is truth, and truth,
beauty,
and we need to
teach our children, their teachers
and everyone else the truth about
Multilingual
Information Education
(MIE), really needed in classrooms,
work,
games, adventures and travels
throughout our life.
Q9. Do you have evidence that
MIE is coming
fast on the Internet?
A9. Yes.
In USA:
State of Utah
passed Educational State Law
S.B.
57 that included Mandarin-Chinese
for all Kindergarten and elementary
schools and on EDNET. In PRC:
Department of Education
mandates
the
regular teaching of English
language to all 100 million school students
K-12 throughout
China,
along with
the learning of Mandarin Pinyin
and 2,600 Chinese Characters!
(Just think
of it,
more
students
are studying English in China
than in all the British
isles).
Q10.
It all sounds exciting, but when and where
can I
start my own
multilingual
MIE Adventure
as an
individual?
A10. As a matter
of fact, today
(record the date), you've
already started on your own
multilingual MIE adventure
on the Internet by reading
an introduction
of 1421 in trilingual format.
(see
web section)
N.B.Internet-Chinese® is
the only standardized linearized script of
square traditional Chinese
Characters (Sinography)
by China Association of Standardization
(see CAS
website and Internet-Chinese
website).
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