About Russian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Russian is a popular East Slavic language. It is widely spoken in Russia and Eastern Europe. This is a part of the Indo-European language family and is among the four living East Slavic languages. Russian is the official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Interestingly widely spoken in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and many other Baltic states. Russian is spoken by over 258 million speakers all over the world. It is written in the Cyrillic script. You can easily distinguish between consonant phonemes with palatal articulation. It has a combination of soft and hard sounds. This distinction is a prominent feature of Russian. Another aspect is the reduction of vowels that are not stressed. Some homographic words include замо́к (zamók – a 'lock') and за́мок (zámok – a 'castle'). You may not be able to indicate the pronunciation of uncommon words.
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.
