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If you speak with a person from Australia, Britain, America and South Africa in English.
如果你用英语跟澳大利亚，英国，美国和南非的人谈话。
Can you understand each one well? I don't think so.
你能听懂他们每个人说的话吗？我看未必。
All of those countries use English.
虽然那些国家都使用英语。
But there is a lot of difference between the ways people from these countries speak.
但是这些国家的人说的英语方式有很大的不同。
Why? Because British speak standard English.
为什么？因为英国人说标准英语。
But the other three countries speak dialects of English.
而其他三个国家的人说英语方言。
China is really a big country.
中国是个地域辽阔的国家。
There are over 400 dialects in China.
它有四百多种方言。
And some dialects are very different from others.
而有些方言与其他的方言大不相同。
So, their are almost different languages.
因此，它们几乎就是不同的语言。
