The world of Chinese language - a short introduction

The number of Chinese speaking people probably exceeds a billion!
This makes Chinese the most common language of the world. While written Chinese is universal to the Chinese-speaking community, spoken Chinese features a number of variations and dialects, which mostly aren't mutually comprehensible. The most common spoken variety of Chinese is Mandarin.

Click on the world map to get information on Chinese courses in China!

The following pages aim to give a short introduction to Chinese language. Find out fascinating Chinese language facts, a short summery of important Chinese grammar characteristics and Chinese varieties or dialects.

Learning a foreign language is fun, but it has it pitfalls. Many of those can be avoided by taking the royal road to learning Mandarin Chinese and studying Mandarin Chinese directly where it is spoken!!