漢語是世界上用作本族語人數(shù)最多的語言。漢語與西方語言的一個(gè)重要區(qū)別在于它是以方塊字(character)?而不是以字母構(gòu)成的。目前仍在使用的書寫系統(tǒng)中，漢語是最古老的。在中國，來自不同地區(qū)的人可能聽不懂對方的方言，但由于漢字有統(tǒng)一的書寫形式，他們交流起來幾乎沒有任何困難。漢語歷史上對團(tuán)結(jié)中華民族發(fā)揮了重要作用。今天，隨著中國經(jīng)濟(jì)的快速增長和全球影響力的增強(qiáng)，越來越多其他國家的人也開始學(xué)習(xí)漢語。


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The?Chinese?language?is?used?as?the?mother?tongue?by?the?greatest?number?of?people?in?the?world.?One?of?the?significant?differences?between?Chinese?and?Western?languages?lies?in?its?composition?of?characters?instead?of?letters.?Although?people?from?different?parts?of?China?may?not?understand?each?other's?dialect,?they?have?no?difficulty?in?communicating?simply?because?there?exists?a?unified?writing?form?for?Chinese?characters.?Chinese?played?a?very?important?role?in?the?unification?of?the?Chinese??nation.?Today,?with?China's?rapid??economic?growth?and?increasing?global?influence,?more?and?more?foreign?people?begin?to?study?Chinese.