HLCC Learn Chinese English and More

When we talk about Chinese or Chinese language, we usually mean the Chinese official language – mandarin Chinese (speaking) and simplified Chinese (writing).

Every Chinese learns to speak mandarin and learn to read and write simplified Chinese in their elementary school. However for some historical reasons Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao use traditional Chinese, which is a more complicated writing system. There are also many Chinese dialects, which sound very different but share the same writing system. Almost every Chinese can speak one to two Chinese dialects. One of the most important dialects is Cantonese and is used in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.