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What was an advantage of the Chinese writing system?
that only the chinese understended their language
How did the Shang develop writing?
shang developed writing by using pictographs which is similar to mdern chinese writing
What is the middle east writing system?
Depends on the language. Hebrew is written one way, Arabic another. Writing the language means writing it in its own characters.
Why did the invention of printing not have significant impact on Chinese society like the printing press invented Europe did?
There are so many characters in the Chinese language that it was difficult to move them.
Is Chinese the hardest language to learn?
Chinese is very hard to learn.However, when learning Chinese you'll probably learn either Standard Mandarin or Hong Kong Cantonese.Here are the reasons that it's a hard language to learn:Both languages are tonal. This means that one pronunciation in pinyin or Jyutping (English-written Chinese) is different from another. Let's say (for example) that you have "jie". One "Jie" means Clean/pure and another "jie" means Sister. If you hear the Chinese language spoken, both Mandarin and Cantonese you will notice have lots of ups and downs in their words.Chinese does not have an alphabet. When learning writing, you will learn radicals (parts of characters) and their characters. There's no ABC in Chinese, there's just water, mouth, heart, small, etc. Putting them together creates the words. There are also two different writing systems, traditional and simplified. In most of mainland China, simplified is used, but in Taiwan and Hong Kong, traditional is used.Cantonese is harder than Mandarin, I think, because Cantonese has 6-9 tones (ups and downs) while Mandarin only has 6.Mandarin is softer, and Cantonese has more G and B sounds.
