Is chinese and taiwanese the same language?
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I'm a taiwanese and i can answer you this question...my english isn't really good so....\n\npeople live in Hong Kong and taiwan write Traditional Chinese ......but others in china write simplified Chinese \n  \nin taiwan have Mandarin Chinese(chinese),Southern Fujian language and hakka\n\nold people in taiwan like my grandmom ,grandpa always spoken Southern Fujian language but some middle-ager usually spoken Southern Fujian language when people talk with Southern Fujian language \n\nhakka most can spoken Mandarin Chinese(chinese),Southern Fujian language and hakka\n\nin china there are more different language like Cantonese\n\nin china different province spoken different language
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mandarin - \nhello: ni hao \ngoodbye: zai jian\n\ncantonese - \nhello: nai hou \ngoodbye: zoi jin\n\n你好=hello (in both dialects)\n再見=goodbye (also in both dialects)
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yes,i am a chinese people!really!\ngo to :www.betterchinese.com\nand it will teach you chinese!\ngood luck
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These are two different sets of Chinese characters.  Simplified Chinese characters are used in mainland China, whereas the Traditional (more complex) characters are used in Taiwan and in Hong Kong.\n\nThe simplified characters are mostly similar but reduced in complexity - usually by reducing the number of (pen) strokes needed to write the character.\n\nThese are not different languages - only different ways of writing the same language.
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Of course Chinese. Japanese have "stolen" a lot of characters from Chinese and developed two sets of symbols of their own  syllabic writing: hiragana and katakana, which symbols, strictly speaking, are not characters. But even if you add up hiragana and katakana symbols together with the characters that they are using, the number will still be much less than the number of characters used in Chinese.
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Chinese is a complex language.each single word can have a meaning or more. unlike english, u need to combine a series of letters to a word that has meaning.
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哦~台灣真是一個完美的國家!!\n既漂亮~空氣又新鮮~又有很多美女!!\n人們都很熱情!!!!\nI LOVE TAIWAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It depends on what your native language is.  If you speak english, the easiest languages to learn are going to be french, spanish or italian.  That's because all of these languages derived from latin so they have form, structure, and even many words in common (or notably similar).  However, if your native language was vietnamese it would probably be easier for you to learn chinese than italian.
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I am assuming you are talking about spoken languages and not programming languages.  In that case, Mandarin Chinese is the hardest to learn but the most beneficial.
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Mandarin Chinese, by far and away the most songlike. When spoken by a nothern Chinese woman is like a bird singing, Cantonese on the otherhand being equally chinese is described BY THE CHINESE, as sounding like dogs barking... I should know I live here (China)
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My wife is also from Taiwan, I've found an excellent resource for learning Mandarin at:\nhttp://www.chinesepod.com/\n\nThis is a podcast for newbie, elementary, intermediate and advanced level.  Just download the mp3s and put them on your iPod, or burn them to an audio CD.
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Well, so far the universal language is English, and that person might speak English as a second language, yes.\n\nHowever, with the passage of a few years, we are sure to be taken over by the Chinese nation, as they happen to be the most advanced and progressive.\nSo, I would say that the answer can be replied to in different ways according to the date...
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I'd say Mandarin Chinese. Not only do you have to learn words ... inflection is also key ... and there are four inflections you can put on any word/syllable. And some of the words are best pronounced in a sing-song sort of tone. \n\nJapanese is definitely easier because it is not so heavily dependent on inflection. \n\nFrench, Spanish and German are all a piece of cake compared to Mandarin Chinese.
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Chinese is a tonal language. This means that tone are used to distinguish words from each other.
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It should be Mandarin. Most of the countries with Chinese people use this language as their official language. Also, it is the language used by most native speakers next to Hindi.\n\nOnce you learnt Mandarin, you will be able to learn other Chinese dialects like Cantonese very easily.
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From the beginning of the twentieth century, Taiwan has been separate from China.  First, as Formosa, it was a colony of Japan.  After WWII, Taiwan was liberated from the Japanese, and four years later China's nationalist government was defeated by the Communists.  They fled to Taiwan and established their government-in-exile in Taipei.  Still today, Taiwan's official name is The Republic of China.  Taiwan's government favors eventual reunification with China, on the condition that China is a democratic nation.\n\nTaiwan views itself as independent from Beijing's sovereignty, and most countries support this reality.  Taiwan is not recognized as a sovereign nation in the UN because of China's "One-China Policy", which states that any nation wanting trade and political relations with China cannot openly support Taiwanese independence.  China views Taiwan as a "renegade province."
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That isn't quite so easy as it sounds.  There are several such family trees, as the various Chinese dialects form one, certain Native American languages another, and so on.  The one most people are familiar with is Indo-European, which includes English, the Germanic languages, the Slavic languages, Sanskrit (and thus most languages of India), Greek and the Romance languages (that is, Latin and its descendants).  Another such tree is Finno-Ugric, which includes Finnish and Hungarian (Magyar).