Study On National Cultural Words In Chinese And Its Teaching To Foreigners

Language is the most important communication tool of human society. National cultural wordsbear the national cultural personality. National cultural words reflect each nation’s unique social system,geographical features, customs, religious beliefs, values, etc.. In teaching Chinese as a foreign language, weshould not only impart knowledge of the language but also explain the cultural knowledge. So nationalcultural words rich in cultural significance have become the emphasis in vocabulary teaching. There is avariety of national cultural words and there are mainly seven types. National cultural words have uniquecharacteristics. Since China and Britain belong to two different peoples, it is inevitable that semanticdifferences exist between their national cultural words. However human beings have common cognitivepatterns and thinking, so some national cultural words in the two nations have the same national culturalsemantics. There are many reasons resulting in different semantics of national cultural words amongnations. There are many kinds of teaching methods in teaching national cultural words, such as intuitivemethod etc. There are mainly five principles in teaching national cultural words. Teaching in Chinesenational cultural words is very important and its prospect is bright.