Dialect
方言
If you speak with a person from Australia, Britain, America and South Africa in English.
如果你用英語跟澳大利亞,英國,美國和南非的人談話。
Can you understand each one well? I don't think so.
你能聽懂他們每個人說的話嗎?我看未必。
All of those countries use English.
雖然那些國家都使用英語。
But there is a lot of difference between the ways people from these countries speak.
但是這些國家的人說的英語方式有很大的不同。

Why? Because British speak standard English.
為什么?因為英國人說標準英語。
But the other three countries speak dialects of English.
而其他三個國家的人說英語方言。
China is really a big country.
中國是個地域遼闊的國家。
There are over 400 dialects in China.
它有四百多種方言。
And some dialects are very different from others.
而有些方言與其他的方言大不相同。
So, their are almost different languages.
因此,它們幾乎就是不同的語言。