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This language is used by nearly one fourth of the world's population.
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It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations and it's interesting to note that documents translated into the Chinese language are the thinnest copies among all the documents on display.
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Chinese characters were written on animal bones in 2000 BC.
This language has existed over thousands of years and is of great vitality. Now, the Chinese people who speak totally different dialects can read and write the same characters and communicate with Putonghua (Mandarin).
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This language is basically a language of pictograph. But don't be afraid of those pictographic characters. One of its charm is that these characters help you understand and remember the meaning of a word. Take look at "一“ (meaning one) in Chinese. It looks like a stick lying on the ground, doesn't it? Does the Chinese character "人" (meaning person) look like a man standing on his two legs? Maybe you will remember these two characters after knowing their stories. You'll learn more interesting stories down the road.
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Let's see another example. The word Sun was written in early days like 
and has gradually developed into 日(ri), for the convenience of writing and printing. The same is true for the word Moon, which developed from the symbol 
into 月(yue). The characters 日 and 月 still have traces of their original forms and so it's easy to learn them by heart. It is very interesting to note that these two characters put together form the word 明(ming) meaning "brightness". One can well imagine the brightness under the sun and moon.
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Many new words are formed using combinations of these basic characters. For example,
| ri(日) | + guang(light-光) --- sunshine日光 |
| + ji(record-记) --- diary日记 | |
| + yong(use-用) --- daily use日用 |
So you can see it's not as difficult as it first looks.What we'd like to tell you is that this language is very interesting and worth knowing and learning.
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We assure you that learning Chinese language is not as difficult as people think. Nowadays, with the help of Pinyin (phonetics), it has become much easier.
Why?
Because the Pinyin uses English letters and their combinations to pronounce Chinese characters. You are in a good positon to learn Chinese if you know 26 letters,
