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CHINESE LANGUAGE FACTS

Currently, Chinese is one of the most common spoken languages around the world, because one-fifth of the world population roughly speaks some form of this language as their mother tongue. Therefore if you are already learning Chinese, you will have a good chance of using it. This language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family and is composed of almost 40,000 different symbols that are universally comprehensible. The most popular Chinese dialect is Mandarin, well-known as Guānhuà 官話, is spoken in west, central and north China. This is the standard language or the official language of the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.  On the other hand, this language is closely connected to Burmese and Tibetan, but quite different from Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Thai languages. It's worth mentioning that in the case of Korean and Japanese are strongly linguistically influenced by Chinese in the course of history. For instance, Kanji and Hanja are two writing systems which are based on Chinese characters in Japan and Korea.

Chinese Language History The history of the Chinese language and the origin of its dialects begin with the linguistic evolution. It is said that Chinese is the oldest language of the world, and researchers have made major discoveries about it. For instance, there are some samples of the Chinese writing which date back from 4,000 years ago. On the other hand, today Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. You can find more information in this section about this interesting language.

Chinese Language Statistics There are some interesting facts about Chinese that you should know such as China has several job opportunities, therefore many foreigners want to work there. Another important one is that many Middle School, High School and Universities teach Chinese due to Mandarin is a language in great demand. Furthermore, one-fifth of the world speaks Chinese as their mother tongue, thus they can get better positions in this country. If you want to learn Chinese literature, it will be necessary to learn at least 2,000 characters of the entire Chinese writing system which is composed of 40,000 characters. To sum up, Chinese seems to be quite difficult, however, more and more people are interested in learning this language.

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Chinese in China China is one of the oldest civilizations with states and cultures from back more than 6 millenniums. You can change your life by studying Chinese language which very is popular around the world. Chinese in China	Chinese in Beijing Beijing is the cultural, political and economic center of the People’s Republic of China. It is located in northern China, partially surrounded by Hebei Province and close to Tianjin Municipality. Chinese in Beijing

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