Make sure you know these facts if you are studying Chinese 10 Chinese Language Facts

Curious to learn more about Chinese? If you want to know more about written Chinese, take a look at this blog: https://www.languagetrainers.com/blog/2016/02/23/evolutionary-languages-a-look-at-written-chinese/ Or take one of our free online level tests here: https://www.languagetrainers.com/level-tests.php If you want to take a step forward, sign up for our private online or face to face Chinese classes with native tutors! https://www.languagetrainers.com/ Or our online group lessons: www.languagetrainers.com/connect ------------------ One billion world citizens speak Chinese natively, and globalization has standardized the language’s varying dialects. Nowadays, all speakers of Standard Chinese are able to communicate, thus increasing business, travel, and personal communication throughout all parts of the Asian world. The global market has caught on –have you? Here's the list of language facts: 1. With over 955 million speakers, Chinese is the world's most used mother tongue. 2. To be able to read the newspaper, you need to know at least 3,000 characters out of tens of thousands. 3. Chinese has five traditional forms of calligraphy, which are considered a form of art: Seal Script, Official Script, Running Script, Running Script, and Cursive Hand. 4. It is the language with the largest number of words that sound similar to each other. 5. Chinese is the only modern pictographic language. 6. Chinese is a tonal language. So, the meaning of what you say can change depending on the tone you use. 7. It has no articles, verb inflections, or plurals. 8. The Japanese and Korean characters descend from the ancient Chinese letters. 9. There's no word for "yes" in Chinese. Instead, people use the verb or adjective in the question. 10. The government created Simplified Chinese to boost literacy levels among the population. If you want to know more about written Chinese, take a look at this blog: https://www.languagetrainers.com/blog/2016/02/23/evolutionary-languages-a-look-at-written-chinese/ Make sure you follow us on all our social media channels for more language tips: Instagram: @language.trainers LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/965804/admin/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/languagetrainers Twitter: https://twitter.com/langtrainers

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