UN Chinese Language Day
UN Chinese Language Day is held on April 20. United Nations. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. Help us
It's the Only Modern Pictographic Language. Different tones can drastically change a word’s meaning. For example, did you know that Chinese has no verb tenses, no distinction between singular and plural, and no alphabet? With over a billion native speakers, about 15% of the world’s population speaks Chinese as their mother tongue. Chinese speakers mean different things by “I speak Chinese”. To know Chinese, you have to know over 2,500 characters. The main accents of Chinese are Northern, Southern, and Taiwanese.
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