Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
France
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Italian Language
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Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
bonjour
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Merci
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
bonsoir
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Bonjour
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
S'il vous plaît
请 (Qǐng)
Bye
au revoir
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Je t'aime
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Mandarin
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Dialect 2
African French
Wu
Where They Speak
Africa
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Swiss French
Yue
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
français
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Français
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French Name
français
chinois
German Name
Französisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
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Ethnicity
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Han
Origin
9th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
fras
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Glottocode
stan1290
sini1245
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
French and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where French and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Chinese language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common French Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Chinese Difficulty
The French vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of French Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare French and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.