Approximately 1.39 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak one of the varieties of Chinese as their first language. [1] The different Chinese language varieties together form the largest branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages.

2.4Republic of China.

Welcome to the first and only living Chinese dictionary that is growing every day with its Chinese learners. You have the opportunity to contribute ways that you remember Chinese characters and photos of your Chinese writing as you learn from other students of Chinese.

中國 是涵蓋 亞歐大陸 東部廣大面積的地域、以及在此建立的國家，以 汉族 為 主體民族 、在 傳統 觀念下，其指位於 天下 正中的國家 [1][2][3][4][5]。

With more than 4,000 years of recorded history, China is one of the few existing countries that also flourished economically and culturally in the earliest stages of world civilization.

Here you can learn the most authentic Chinese we use every day in China. Check out how we order food in a restaurant, how we buy things in a market, how we chat with our friends, how we...

Our China culture guide contains information divided into Traditions, Heritage, Arts, Festivals, Language, and Symbols. Topics include Chinese food, World Heritage sites, China's Spring Festival, Kungfu, and Beijing opera.

China’s non-Han minorities found themselves surrounded by an aggressive, expansionist Han Chinese culture during the early Qing.

By completing all free online Mandarin Chinese lessons provided here, you should be able to manage basic pronunciation, learn some vocabulary and acquire certain simple Chinese sentence structure.

Standard Chinese is referred to as Mandarin in English, " Pǔtōnghuà " or "common to everybody speech" in Mainland China, and " Guóyǔ " or "language of the whole country" in Taiwan. All official documents in Pinyin are written in Mandarin, which is taught all over China. It is also a standard for language teaching in some other countries.