Living in Shanghai: The Chinese Language

The Chinese language is renowned to be the hardest in the world with more then 50000 characters and its four tones. Learning to communicate can therefore be perceived as a challenge, but once overcome, will make your day-to-day experience of Shanghai much more enjoyable. Indeed, it has become increasingly popular among expat residents to learn the basic 3000 characters needed to read the newspaper and impress the locals. Furthermore, Pinyin, the standard system using the Latin alphabet to represent the pronounced sounds, makes learning simple phrases and numbers much easier. However, English, as the language of business in Shanghai, is also understood and spoken fairly well by Chinese in most expat areas.

Be a part of our Shanghai expat community on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shanghai.expat.guide

If you are an expatriate, you will definitely enjoy our city guide videos http://www.expateye.com

Move One is dedicated to providing seamless services for all aspects of international relocation. We offer door to door moving, fine art shipping, pet transportation and personalized relocation assistance (including but not limited to home search, school search, settling-in and immigration services)
To learn about our services, visit our website: http://www.moveoneinc.com
For interesting news from the industry, visit our blog: http://www.moveoneinc.com/blog/

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Move One Relocations
• MoveOneRelo
• relocation services
• international moving
• expats
• expatriates
• expat living
• Shanghai City Guide
• City Guide
• expat experiences
• Chinese language
• Chinese
• Chinese caracters
• Speaking Chinese
• learning Chinese
• Move One City Guide
• moveon
• move on
• moveone
• cost of living Shanghai
• Chinese lessons
• speaking Chinese
• learning languages
• video guide

[hillerm]

Theres really 5 tones. Sometimes a natural tone is used.