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About one-fifth of the world's population, or over one billion people, speak some form of Chinese as their native language. The identification of the varieties of Chinese"dialects" instead of "languages" is considered inappropriate by some linguists and Sociologist's.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoProbably not many, French & Spanish are easier to learn, and are smoother to the American ear.
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∙ 13y ago13% if I remember correctly
5% english.
read it in national geographic
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∙ 14y agoi guess more than 4,000.000.as Singapore is only country who take Chinese as second laanguage.and the popular of Singapore more than 4,000,000.
more info pls visit www.learnchinese.sg
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∙ 13y agoAbout 850 million people in China speak Mandarin.
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∙ 14y agotwenty percent
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Many people learned Chinese and found that Chinese is not as hard as our imaged, we are like it, it is very interesting.hope you like to.
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China has a population of 1.4 billion people, most of whom speak Chinese. That alone makes Chinese the most spoken language. This doesn't even take into account the amount of people that are in Taiwan, Singapore, or other areas where Chinese people live. To whomever posted this, do your homework. "Chinese" isn't a language. The people of China speak many languages but primarily Mandarin and Cantonese. Mandarin is by far the most common as far as I know.
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How many characters in the Chinese language?
Around or over 50,000 characters exist in the Chinese language.
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