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Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
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Map of the world colour-coded to show Chinese-speaking areas.
(Adapted from ASDFGHJ, ‘A map of the Sinophone world’, 24 January 2009, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New-Map-Sinophone_World.PNG, last accessed 29 May 2009)
Figure 1 The Chinese-speaking world

 1 The Chinese language