Mandarin is the most popular form of Chinese spoken in China. At least one fifth of the world speaks Mandarin as it's native language. Not only is Mandarin spoken in China but it is also spoken in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and is one of six official languages of the United Nations. Chinese is the oldest written language in the world with roughly 6,000 years of history. There are over 20,000 Chinese characters , though only 3,000-4,000 or so are necessary to read a newspaper. Unlike western language Chinese concepts of reading and writing is very different. Spoken Chinese is related to Tibetan and Burmese.
There is no alphabet in Chinese like there is in English so this makes it hard to learn. There is a Roman form of Chinese though that make it easy for foreigners to read and write Chinese. This form if Chinese is called pinyin and it is based on the Roman alphabet. Hello is pinyin is ni hao.
There is no alphabet in Chinese like there is in English so this makes it hard to learn. There is a Roman form of Chinese though that make it easy for foreigners to read and write Chinese. This form if Chinese is called pinyin and it is based on the Roman alphabet. Hello is pinyin is ni hao.
Chinese Alphabets