TOP FACTS ABOUT LANGUAGES: CHINESE㊙️
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1️⃣Chinese is one of the most spoken mother tongues in the world
🤯Can you imagine?
One in six people in the world can speak Chinese.
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Over a billion native speakers speak Chinese as their mother tongue. That’s like English, German, French and Spanish together.
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2️⃣Chinese is one of the official United Nations languages.🇺🇳
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Chinese joins English, Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish as one of the six official UN languages.
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3️⃣Chinese writing has over 50,000 characters.
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But, only about 20,000 of them are used today. While it only takes about 2-3,000 characters to read a newspaper.🈺
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Mostly, Chinese adults can recognize around 8,000 characters without using a dictionary.
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4️⃣Nouns don’t have a singular/plural distinction.
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In comparison to English, where plural nouns are denoted by the letter -s, Chinese nouns keep the same form no matter if they are singular or plural.
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5️⃣There is no alphabet.
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The Chinese writing system is known to be very complicated for English-speakers, as it has no segmental alphabet. Instead, it consists of thousands of separate hieroglyphs. However, the Chinese language can be rewritten into Latin characters with the help of Pinyin, which relieves a student of the burden that falls on him due to the memory of thousands of individual hieroglyphs.
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6️⃣Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to learn.
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Chinese is one of the most influential languages for both businesses and individuals. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most challenging languages for English speakers.
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For example, according to the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, most English-speaking people need more than 2200 hours in class to learn Chinese.
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