Chinese courses
The number of persons speaking Chinese is more than one billion. While written Chinese is universal, the number of dialects varies a lot. The most famous dialect is Mandarin.
The written Chinese unites almost 40.000 symbols and it developed more than 4000 years ago. The symbols represent syllables. The Chinese writing also influenced the Japanese.
Chinese is a tonal language that is we understand one word by its tone. In the mandarin dialect there are 4 tones but other dialects can have 9 tones.
All the words have the same form; there are not differences between singular and plural, there are no conjugations or declensions.
You can follow courses of Chinese language at Echo Center of Foreign Languages.