Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language In The Cultural Meaning Of Animal Words

In foreign language teaching, research and teaching Chinese vocabulary is verybasic part. Words in different languages due to social background, ethnic differencesin mentality, habits and other factors, would produce different cultures attachmeaning. Learners know the basic meaning of target language words, and does notunderstand the culture of the target language vocabulary add-on, only culturalmeaning associated with native equivalents to verbal communication,communication errors occur. For example, in Western eyes, the dog is loyal, reliableand depend on, as well as representatives of the friends of; In China, the derogatoryword meaning the majority of the dogs, most of them don’t like dogs from thancompare to others, this is a do not respect people approach. Vocabulary learning of"negative transfer" will bring a lot of inconvenience to the learners of Chinese. Thisresearch aimed at by rats, dogs and cattle, three kinds of animal culture additionaldiscussion on the meaning of the word, from the perspective of national culture andpsychology of the two, and reveal the cultural cause of additional mining. In order toenrich the meaning of Chinese research, promotion of Chinese traditional culture,reducing foreign language learning.This article except for the introduction and conclusion, a body part there arefour chapters, first word of the culture to define additional, chapter three after threeanimals respectively, rat, cow, dog, for example, illustrates the three culturaladditional meanings of animal words and in-depth discussion on the causes of its.Respectively, these three kinds of animal words both Chinese and Westerncomparison to uncover additional semantic similarities and differences of animalwords between Chinese and Western culture.