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-Standard MandarinStandard Mandarin, (國語/国语) also known as Standard Spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used by the Mainland China, Taiwan, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore.
The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect of the Mandarin language, a large and diverse group of Chinese dialects spoken across northern and southwestern China. The vocabulary is largely drawn from this group of dialects. The grammar is standardized to the body of modern literary works written in Vernacular Chinese, which in practice follows the same tradition of the Mandarin dialects with some notable exceptions. As a result, Standard Mandarin itself is usually just called "Mandarin" in non-academic, everyday usage. However, linguists use "Mandarin" to refer to the entire language. This convention will be adopted by the rest of this article.
Standard Mandarin is officially known
in the People's Republic of China as Pǔtōnghuà (traditional Chinese: 普通話; simplified Chinese: 普通话, literally "common speech")
in the Republic of China (Taiwan) as Guóyǔ (traditional Chinese: 國語; simplified Chinese: 国语, literally "national language")
in Malaysia and Singapore as Huáyǔ (traditional Chinese: 華語; simplified Chinese: 华语, literally "Chinese (in a cultural sense) language").
All three terms are used interchangeably in Chinese communities around the world.
source:wikipedia.org
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- Big interest in learning Chinese - Chinese Language
By Elizabeth Weise
SAN FRANCISCO — In more and more classrooms across the nation, students — from kindergarten on — are learning Mandarin Chinese, in some cases instead of Spanish, French or other languages that have long been more popular in U.S. schools.
It's partly a reflection of how parents increasingly see China's emergence as an economic power as something for which they should prepare their children.
The number of elementary and secondary school students studying Chinese could be as much as 10 times higher than it was seven years ago, says Marty Abbott, a spokeswoman for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
The rising popularity of Mandarin Chinese has been "incredible" says Cynthia Ning, director of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. She attributes the interest to communist China's economic boom as it emerges from decades of isolation, as well as the U.S. economy's increasing trade with China. China is now the United States' No. 2 trading partner, behind Canada and ahead of Mexico.
"I have a feeling the China focus is not going to go away," Ning says.
The Mandarin trend has spread quickly, Abbott says.
source:USAToday.com