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 worldwide interest in Chinese has b
2、een 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 language, with its earliest writings dating back nearly four
3、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。在这块辽阔的土地上，人们使用多种语言和方言。几十年来，尽管政府一直号召推广普通话，作为标准汉语，但在相当多的人口中，普通话还未能成为日常使用的交流工具。这显然阻碍了经济
