About Mandarin
Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world with over 1.2 billion speakers. The Chinese language can be heard throughout the world, its official language of Mainland China, Taiwan & one of the official languages of Singapore . It is one of the 6 official languages of United Nation . It is no wonder that millions of people are investing in learning this language !! The Chinese language is a tonal language.
- High & Leveling
- Rising
- Falling & Rising
- Falling
Unlike other languages, Mandarin language doesn’t have alphabets; instead has chinese characters called as “hànzi”. There is chinese character for each & every word ; so we have enormous numbers of chinese characters.
You may think that it is “too hard” to learn Chinese. It is true that Mandarin Chinese is Classified as one of the most difficult languages to learn, but that is mostly
because of the writing system. The spoken language is comparatively easier than many European languages.
- Pinyin is a standardised official system which uses English alphabets to pronounce chinese characters.
- It serves as a bridge for non-natives to understand the difference between spoken & written chinese language.