Chinese Simplified to English Translation
Chinese Simplified languageAbout one-fifth of the world speaks some form of
Chinese as its native language, making it the language with the most native speakers. The
Chinese language (spoken in its standard Mandarin form) is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of six official languages of the United Nations.
There are roughly 70,000
Chinese characters and phonetic sounds. An average person has to know about 3,000 characters to be able to read the newspaper. Besides a core vocabulary and sounds,
Chinese and most related languages share features that make them unlike most Western languages: They are monosyllabic, have even less inflection than English, and are tonal.
English languageFrom around 1600, the
English colonization of North America resulted in the creation of a distinct American variety of English. Some
English pronunciations and words 'froze' when they reached America. In some ways,
American English is more like the
English of Shakespeare than modern British
English is. Some expressions that the British call 'Americanisms' are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for example 'trash' for rubbish, 'loan' as a verb instead of lend, and 'fall' for autumn).
Spanish also had an influence on American English (and subsequently British English), with words like canyon, ranch, stampede and vigilante being examples of Spanish words that entered English through the settlement of the American West.