The official dialects generally refer to the northern dialects, while the non-official dialects are often spoken in the southeast part of the country. Divided into official and non-official dialects, they vary between different areas. With a vast territory and huge population, China has many different dialects which are of great complexity. The language barrier now is not a problem at all for those that wish to come to China. You can refer to the Basic Expressions in Chinese. However, in rural or remote areas, few people can speak English or other foreign languages. Some may master a second foreign language like French, German, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. In large cities there are more people who can communicate with foreigners in English than smaller towns & cities.
Nowadays many Chinese people can speak basic English, especially the youth, students, and staff of service trades like hotels, restaurants, airlines, banks and post offices. Chinese once had very great influence on some peripheral countries with their languages and characters, such as Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese.Įnglish is a required course and universal education in China and has great popularity. It is beyond all doubt that mandarin is used as a mother tongue by the most people accounting for about one fifth of the world's population. Students are often taught mandarin as ' Yuwen' in their schoolbooks. Mandarin is shaped and based on the Beijing dialect and other dialects spoken in the northern areas of China. In Taiwan Province and Hong Kong, it is called ' Guoyu' while in Singapore and Malaysia, it is often called ' Huayu'. It is the common language of all modern Han nationality people. Putonghua is a parlance in mainland China. The official language of China is the Mandarin, which is the very name of ' Hanyu' or ' Putonghua', belonging to Sino-Tibetan. As one of the six official languages used by UN (United Nations), Chinese now has earned itself greater status in the World.
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