Chinese+Language

By Andy Did you know from ancient times to modern day, one of the world’s hardest learned languages came from the Chinese, from the age of ruling dynasties to leading prime ministers; China has more than one language, all hard to learn. Today, various Chinese languages are hard to understand. The languages of Chinese is different by many types of people living in China. Mandarin and Cantonese are examples of the common language in China yet both are different in many ways by the fact that they are important in some way, their usefulness, and their influences on nations and the people, makes it hard to learn chinese. In China there are many languages; out of all of them two that I speak and have been introduced in the book //__Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress__// will be acknowledged. Mandarin, the primary language spoken in most of China is a secondary language to my custom; in fact my first language is Cantonese. To tell the truth, both have been originated in China; Mandarin is mostly communicated in Beijing while Cantonese in Canton and Hong Kong. Both languages like all others have different accents. Some Chinese languages have the same characters but voiced differently. Due to these circumstances people who listen to their customary languages rather than distinct and foreign dialog would create an awkward scenario often described as “the chicken talking to the duck.” It has became impossible for the Chinese to handle these situations, thus that was why mandarin was made official language in most of China because Beijing is where mandarin is spoken, other than that Beijing has also been capitol of China. Today in Chinese societies, it has been accounted that Mandarin is ranked number one of China’s mostly spoken and populated language. Follow by these rank, Cantonese remains top third. The results say that more than 850 million people use mandarin as their main dialect. Cantonese or //Yue// has only 80 million. Many people use Chinese in their speeches. Now that Chinese language has been recognized widely by the people of the world, it has become certain that “Chinese bilingualism, more than two languages, today is more important than ever.” (Chinese 1) Starting now, Chinese has been important to the US, as a fellow nation it is highly recommended but optional for Americans to seek interaction or aid from the Chinese Americans, first they need to learn their language.
 * Mandarin vs. Cantonese**

From the beginning, Chinese had a common characteristic, influenced by different dialect and standard Chinese, many of these languages also influenced the world in a way. Today many schools teach Chinese and it has become international during the one and only //Beijing Olympics//. It is especially hard to deny that Mandarin has been a major language during that time. It is hard to say which language is more important because all Chinese languages relate to each other in some way. It has been announced that “Throughout history Chinese culture and politics had a great influence on unrelated languages such as Korean and Japanese.” (Wiki 3) Studies show that Asia languages has common characteristics as the standard Chinese language. Most characters or the Chinese alphabet has similar and familiar resemblances to the Korean and the Japanese alphabet. Today Chinese words are used to develop a way to use English words with Chinese.

Throughout the history of china, from ruling dynasties to prime minister Leadership, It had a great impact on modern day, lives influenced by Chinese Culture and it still remains hard to learn.

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