Chinese is made up two languages and can be understood by speakers of the others. In the UK Chinese can be spoken commonly and mostly in Cantonese which can be founded from people in South of China and Hong Kong, the Mandarin or Putonghua known as the common speech is from the northern dialect and its regarded as the standard language for the country in general and is mostlu used in countries like Taiwan and Singapore.
All Chinese languages has a different tone usage to signal differences in meaning between words. Cantonese, for instance, has nine tones; Mandarin has four, as illustrated by the different meanings of the word.
The Chinese community in the UK is one oldest communities. The history is been traced back to the 17th Century beginning with the trades with China. The first Chinatown was in London in the 1880s. Today, many Chinese have been in the UK for decades. In the educational sector, Chinese students are likely to have gained more grades than any other ethnic group with a population estimated to over 400, 000.
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