About one fifth of the world's population speaks some variety of Chinese as their native language. Chinese is considered a family of languages rather than a single language. There are two main kind of Chinese; Mandarin and Cantonese.

Mandarin is the most widely spoken as it is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. Mandarin is considered the simplest spoken Chinese language as it only uses four tones. Several other varieties of Chinese, including Yue and Wu, use many more distinct tones for each syllable. Almost every speaker of any Chinese language knows Mandarin at least as their second language.

Cantonese is a member of the Yue branch of Chinese, and is most popular in the southeastern parts of China, including Hong Kong. It involves more tones than Mandarin. Because it involves fewer tones, it can often communicate more words in fewer syllables, making recorded Cantonese slightly shorter than Mandarin.

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