汉语是世界上用作本族语人数最多的语言。汉语与西方语言的一个重要区别在于它是以方块字(character) 而不是以字母构成的。目前仍在使用的书写系统中，汉语是最古老的。在中国，来自不同地区的人可能听不懂对方的方言，但由于汉字有统一的书写形式，他们交流起来几乎没有任何困难。汉语历史上对团结中华民族发挥了重要作用。今天，随着中国经济的快速增长和全球影响力的增强，越来越多其他国家的人也开始学习汉语。
译文：
The Chinese language is used as the mother tongue by the greatest number of people in the world. One of the significant differences between Chinese and Western languages lies in its composition of characters instead of letters. Although people from different parts of China may not understand each other's dialect, they have no difficulty in communicating simply because there exists a unified writing form for Chinese characters. Chinese played a very important role in the unification of the Chinese nation. Today, with China's rapid economic growth and increasing global influence, more and more foreign people begin to study Chinese.