About Italian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The Italian language is the official language of Italy. It is spoken by 66,000,000 people and most of the native speakers are living in Italy. Italian is also the official language of San Marino and Vatican City. If this isn’t enough it is also spoken in Switzerland. The pronunciation and sound are quite similar to Latin and Spanish while grammar is similar to other romance languages. You will notice a lot of nouns, adjectives, and other indefinite articles in it. Italian features 27 pronouns while the plurals and verbs are very formal. There are a lot of dialects of Italian that are inspired by different languages. Judeo-Italian (Italkian) was a popular dialect traditionally but it is nearly extinct now.
About Chinese (Simplified) Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Chinese is the official language of China and Hong Kong. The simplified characters are one of the major written scripts in China. These characters are not only used in China but other places in the world. Most of the children studying in Malaysia and Singapore all know simplified Chinese. They are also used in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Japan. The traditional characters have been a choice in books and texts majorly. However in the modern era it covers the majority of contemporary Chinese text. In China the dialect of Chinese people is known as mandarin. It is studied with simplified characters of Chinese. You will be surprised to know that simplified characters are not used for writing. About 1.3 billion people in the world speak Chinese language.