1、Cultureandlanguage欢迎各位参加“对外汉语”学习班。我们很高兴地看到，近年来世界各地学汉语者与日俱增。对于这门拥有世界上使用人数最多、文学历史最悠久的语言来说，这股学习热潮早该出现了。从某种意义上说，汉语是一种很古老的语言，其最早的汉字已有近四千年的历史了。随着各位学习兴趣的提高，我将适时介绍汉语对中华民族的文化和思维所产生的影响。Welcome to the program “Chinese as a Foreign Language”. We areglad to see that a worldwi
2、de interest in Chinese has been increasing at an accelerating tempo in recent years.Considering that Chinese has the largest number of speakers in the world and the longest timeinitsliterature, this interest is long overdue.In a sense, Chinese is a very old langu
3、age, with its earliest writings dating back nearly four thousand years.With the increase in your interest, in due time I will discuss the influence of the Chinese language on the cultural and intellectual development of the Chinese nation.中国是一个多民族国家，具有经济发展不平衡的特点。
