{"id":3336,"date":"2011-07-16T03:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2011-07-16T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:37:26","slug":"mandarin-the-most-widely-spoken-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3336","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin-The most widely spoken language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mandarin language \u2013 China<\/h2>\n<p>The highest number of speakers use Mandarin language the number of  speakers are crossed 1 billion plus, it is the most widely spoken  language on the planet which is based in the most populated country on  the planet, China. Speaking Mandarin can be really tough, because each  word can be pronounced in four ways (or \u201ctones\u201d), and a beginner will  invariably have trouble distinguishing one tone from another.<\/p>\n<p>To say \u201chello\u201d in Mandarin, say \u201cNi hao\u201d (Nee HaOW). The \u201cHao\u201d is  pronounced as one syllable, but the tone requires that you let your  voice drop midway, and then raise it again at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandarin language \u2013 China The highest number of speakers use Mandarin language the number of speakers are crossed 1 billion plus, it is the most widely spoken language on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3336\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[4986,4653,4987,4988],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-know","tag-about-languages","tag-languages","tag-mandarin-language","tag-most-widely-speaking-languages","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}