As a tool of communication, language plays a key role in the development and spread of culture. Given the importance of a language to a country, many experts are showing concern about the development of the Chinese language, which is now facing unprecedented challenges.
A large percentage of the Chinese population can not communicate in the standard spoken Chinese, known as Putonghua. Written language has also met with similar problems. For example, teachers of Chinese say they cannot understand what their students are trying to convey in their essays since they use irregular Chinese or fragments of English words, expressions and abbreviations. And existing side by side with the standard spoken Putonghua, there are other dialects, which are each further divided into several accents. As a result, although people all speak Chinese, they cannot understand each other.Promoting Putonghua is needed to surmount the obstacles that arise during communication. The development of Putonghua must be seen as imperative by the government and every member of the society.
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