Scarlet+(speech)

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Speech China and the U.S are two very different countries. They have very different languages too. Some people speak more than one language. China’s main language is Chinese, and the U.S’ main language is English. Chinese has lots of different languages in it. Mandarin, Wu, Min, Yue, and Hakka are some of the languages. English has a formed alphabet with letters, where as Chinese has symbols for every sound, such as if you were trying to make the “th” sound there would be a symbol for that. In English each letter has a name and a sound and sometimes more than one sound. But in China they have a symbol for every sound. Chinese (usually spoken in Standard Mandarin) is the official language for both mainland China, and Taiwan. Which means Mandarin is the most common language in China. Putonghua and Guoyu are the languages of The Republic of China. About one fifth of the world speaks some form of Chinese. That is because China has the biggest population in the world. China is a very interesting country. And their language is very interesting too. Although it seems very difficult to learn all of the symbols and their meanings, Chinese would be very fun to speak. I hope you learned more about Mandarin and think it is more interesting from my report.