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  January 11, 2023 10:24 PM EST

  Tech geeks in China looking to understand Google's newly unveiled corporate structure are out of luck: the website of the new parent company, dubbed Alphabet, was blocked less than 24 hours after going live.
  Google unveiled a surprise corporate overhaul on Tuesday forming Alphabet, a holding company that will include Internet search and a handful of independent companies, such as the research arm X Lab, investment unit Google Ventures and health and science operations.To get more news about china alphabet, you can visit shine news official website.
  So far the website only contains a letter from Google co-founder Larry Page and a link to Google's existing investor relations page.
  But the website for Alphabet, www.abc.xyz, is already blocked in China, which operates the world's most extensive and sophisticated Internet censorship system, known as the "Great Firewall".
  Despite the block, the announcement of Google's restructuring was widely reported in Chinese official media, including the People's Daily, the official Communist Party mouthpiece.
  The Paper, a government-run news website, even named the parent companies' new website address in its report, saying the unorthodox mix of letters "broke with convention".
  The California-based tech firm withdrew from China in 2010 over censorship issues, and the two have continued to have a turbulent relationship, with Beijing moving last year to fully block Google's hugely popular Gmail service.
  Reading Chinese
  Rather than an alphabet, Mandarin has thousands of characters that generally fall into two camps: traditional or simplified. Traditional characters have been used for thousands of years and are commonly found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Chinese diasporas, Wiebe says. In the 20th century, the Chinese government made an effort to simplify many of the characters to improve literacy. Yang says the major differences between traditional and simplified characters “lie in the reduced number of strokes and simplified configurations.”

  To memorize characters so you can read Chinese, tap into apps like Pleco, a Chinese dictionary that has a flashcard option. Or, try reading a Chinese newspaper. Wiebe also suggests using The Chairman’s Bao, an online resource with simplified newspapers and a live dictionary.

  Learn How to Write in Chinese
  Simple exercises are the key to learning how to write in Chinese, whether you want to learn simplified or traditional Chinese characters. In the Chinese writing system, each character represents a syllable and has at least one meaning. When you combine Chinese characters, you create a word. For example, the word for “China” is two characters, one for “middle” and one for “country.”

  Practice by writing Chinese characters and words in a notebook. Wiebe suggests writing a simple diary entry every day. As you improve, create sentences with characters rather than learning words in isolation. Think of a sentence you’d like to write, then find the Chinese characters to complete that sentence.

  Is Chinese Hard to Learn?
  While Mandarin may seem challenging to master, you can reach basic or practical proficiency as long as you put in the time. “If you have a really good memory and a good ear, Mandarin should not be hard,” Wiebe says. “You have to decide that it’s really important and that you’re going to discipline yourself a lot.”