Specifics of Lexical and Grammatical Rules in the Chinese Language

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The study conducts a survey about the use of grammatical verbs in the Chinese language through the descriptive perception of linguistic information in connection with the meaningful world structure of the Chinese language and its characters. The research advices on the need to closely evaluate the European approach to the basics of the Chinese language in connection with teaching methods. The particular idea (research) provided by examples with verbs of movement in space. The authors judging by them long teaching experience advices and considers to revise some methodological rules that are general present in curricula and other materials, in addition, the authors suggests an alternative approach of mastering Chinese language for the western trainees by including into account their cognitive and psychological thinking process. Strong attention is focused on the underestimation of specific dimensional structure of the Chinese language the main reason of this statement is proven by the lack of cognitive-semantic patterns. The article also puts into a question the general methods of teaching Chinese famously known as the westernized which is significantly different in way of structural and content parameter.

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Tatyana V. Demidova

Independent researcher

Email: tademidova52@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0001-0332-871X

PhD in Philology

Sergey A. Barov

Financial University

Author for correspondence.
Email: sabarov@fa.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0008-4844-1549

PhD in Political Sciences, Associate Professor, the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication

49, Leningradsky Prospekt, Moscow, Russia Federation, 125993

Tatyana M. Soloveva

RUDN University

Email: solovevatm@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7492-1422

PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

6, Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198

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