language (mandarin)
China's biggest language is easily Mandarin. Although Mandarin is thought to be the hardest language to learn, it is the most spoken language in China and the world. There is approximately 1,997,000,000 people in this world that speak Mandarin. Unlike other languages, Mandarin is created from pictures. The pictures over time became characters. For example-
There are actually two types of Chinese. The common type and most spoken is Standard Mandarin or Simplified Mandarin. The other type of Mandarin is traditional Mandarin. It is much more complicated and is rarely spoken.
To make learning Chinese easier, there is a direct translation from English called pinyin. It is the sound of the word in English letters. To know how to pronounce it there are five different lines that go above the letter called tone marks. It tells you how to say the character correctly. The pinyin is put above the character. For example-
To make learning Chinese easier, there is a direct translation from English called pinyin. It is the sound of the word in English letters. To know how to pronounce it there are five different lines that go above the letter called tone marks. It tells you how to say the character correctly. The pinyin is put above the character. For example-
Most Chinese characters are made up of other characters or raticals (which are small characters meaning something basic). For example, take the character 内(Nèi).