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15 of the easiest languages to learn for English speakers – ranked Frisian. Frisian is thought to be one of the languages most closely related… Read More »What Is The Easiest Language To Learn?

All of the official spoken languages were once dialects. Mandarin was one of the 10 major dialects in China and it officially became the national… Read More »When Did China Adopt Mandarin?

Hong Kong (/ˈhɒŋkɒŋ/ (US) or /hɒŋˈkɒŋ/ (UK); Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: [hœ́ːŋ.kɔ̌ːŋ] ( listen)), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of… Read More »Is Hong Kong Part Of China?

Mandarin. Mandarin As mentioned before, Mandarin is unanimously considered the most difficult language to master in the world! Spoken by over a billion people in… Read More »What Is The Hardest Language In The World?

And these Chinese government officials spoke the Chinese language named ‘官话 guān huà’, and thus slowly this language was also named ‘Mandarin’. For centuries, more… Read More »Why Is It Called Mandarin And Not Chinese?

In mainland China and Singapore, Mandarin is the spoken language and people use Simplified Chinese (SC) when they write. The ‘How and Why’ behind mixing… Read More »Is Mandarin Chinese Traditional?

Mandarin language, also called Northern Chinese, Chinese (Pinyin) Guanhua (“Officials’ Language”), or (Wade-Giles romanization) Kuan-hua, the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Is Mandarin a… Read More »Is Mandarin A Form Of Chinese?

Languages with the most native speakers, 2022 Mandarin Chinese is the largest language in the world when counting only first language (native) speakers. This is… Read More »What Is The Most Spoken Language In The World?

Mikan (Mandarin Orange) Mikan were introduced to Japan from China about 400 years ago, from where they traveled to the West and became known as… Read More »Are Oranges Native To Japan?

When Jesuit missionaries learned this standard language in the 16th century, they called it “Mandarin”, from its Chinese name Guānhuà (官话/官話) or ‘language of the… Read More »Why Are Chinese Called Mandarin?