Chinese

Chinese, also known as Mandarin, is the official language of China, Taiwan, and Singapore. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, with over 1.1 billion native speakers. Chinese is a tonal language, meaning that the meaning of a word can change depending on the tone of voice used. There are four main tones in Chinese: the flat tone, the rising tone, the falling-rising tone, and the falling tone. Chinese characters are logographic, meaning that each character represents a word or morpheme. There are over 50,000 Chinese characters, but most people only need to kno...