Just like emojis and hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, Chinese doesn't use an alphabet based on sounds, but symbols denoting meaning.

就像表情符号和古埃及的象形文字一样，汉语不使用基于声音的字母表，而是使用表示意义的符号。

My adviser recommended that I should sign up for advanced literature because I like English and I'm good at it.

首先，我得非常认真地考虑自己选什么课程。学校的指导老师帮助我选择了适合我的课程：数学、英语、化学、世界史和文。我知道文是一门十分难学的语言，但我希望毕业时能说一口流利的汉语。指导老师还建议我选修高级文学，因为我喜欢英语，而且成不错。

Chinese is an analytical language which depends on the invariable roots and word order to indicate its grammatical relations.

汉语是分析型语言，其语法关系取决于不变的词根和词序。

Hi Rob - or should I say 'ni hao' Rob?

你好罗伯，或者我应该说" 你好（汉语）" 罗伯？

Also, the word 'fish' in Chinese sounds like the word for 'surplus'.

并且，在汉语里，" 鱼" 和" 富余" 的" 余" 谐音。

As of 2021, only English, Mandarin, and Hindi have more speakers.

在 2021 年，只有英语、汉语和印地语比西班牙语有更多的使用者。

One of the main varieties of the language is spoken in Beijing.

北京是主要汉语种类发源地。

Chinese words are formed by putting together different characters.

汉语的词汇是由不同的汉字组合而成的。

South Africa officials have not said how much their teaching Mandarin will cost.

南非官方并未透露授汉语的成本。

No! They push her. That girl's so good at the violin, she's practically Asian.

不! 他们逼她 那女孩小提琴拉得很好，她汉语说得就像亚洲似的。

And she said not every school will offer Mandarin.

她说不是每个学校都提供汉语课。

Hokkien is a version, or dialect, of Chinese.

闽南语是汉语的一种版本，即方言。

The Standard Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese, launched in 2004, is now in its fourth edition.

自 2004 年首次出版，《现代汉语标准词典》现已发行第四版。

The rest were native speakers of French, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, and Mandarin Chinese.

其余的以法语、俄语、西班牙语、荷兰语、德语、匈牙利语和汉语为母语。

Although his Mandarin was far from perfect, students and faculty cheered his effort.

尽管他的汉语远非完美，但学生们和员们都为他的努力鼓掌。

I'm fluent in Mandarin. So, that's always been a huge part of my life.

我的汉语普通话很流利，所以那一直是我生活一个很重要的部分。

Maybe " Chi" is the ancient Chinese word for the subatomic universe.

也许" 气" 在古代汉语里是" 亚原子宇宙" 的意思。

Together, they learned Spanish and Mandarin. Eric was 48 years old.

他们一起学习西班牙语和汉语。埃里克48岁。

Unfortunately, optimism about progress is not universal.

不幸的是，全球的情况并不乐观。3。" Unfortunately， optimism about progress is not universal翻译时，不必泥于英语框 架限制，可以在理解句子意思的基础上，用汉语的习惯组织句子，所以该句可译为" 不幸的是，全球的情况不容乐观。" 因此，口译对者的汉语水平要求也很高，译者在注重提高英语水平的同时，也要加强汉语的修养，这样在口译时才可以做到准确、流利、快速。

And because I'm very much focused on input-based learning, I would like to see more grammar books where concepts of grammar are introduced in the target language in Spanish and Japanese and Chinese.

因为我非常关注基于输入的学习，我希望看到更多的语法书是用目标语言介绍其的语法概念，比如西班牙语、日语和汉语。