China has more than 1.3 billion folks,almost a quarter of the population for humanity. Chinese speak the Chinese language in People's Republic of China,Hong Kong,Taiwan,Singapore,Malaysia and overseas Chinese in the world. More humans speak Chinese in the world than other languages so it is highly desirable for Non-Chinese to learn how to speak Chinese in order to be able to communicate with the Chinese on earth. Interaction develops understanding and understanding leads to peace in the world.
Chinese is unique to the fact that the written language can be read and understood by Chinese and educators in Korea and Japan re parts of Hanga and Kanji.
Folks in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces speak Wu dialect,circa 80 million and Cantonese speakers are estimated around 70 million in Guangdong,Hong Kong and many folks in USA as early settlers.
Pin Yin is the spelling of the sounds of the Chinese words. For details,read "A Glimpse of the Chinese Language" available at www.rand.org for pdf, free of charge for cultural enrichment with more detailed explantions than the following write-up -
Chinese words may be pictographs such as the sun, the moon etc.Ideographs are for conceptual ways and logographs and radicals for clues. There are simplified and traditonal forms of the written Chinese as a form of art re calligraphy and 4 tones in Mandarin with musical touch. More tones in other dialects. Some linguists hold the view that Shanghainese resembles the Japanese to a certain sounds.
Francis Shieh aka Xie Shihao on Wednesday, Feb.17, 2010 at 10 a.m.
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