Language Problems?
Yes, there is a bit of a language problem depending on what you are doing and where you go as well as how you go. If you are on a tour your guide will speak English while on the tour. The drivers seldom if ever speak English. Taxi cab drivers almost never speak English. At the train station few if any speak English. The airport of course there are many connected with the airlines and airport that speak excellent English. In most hotels, front desk people as well as some others speak English in the major hotels. I myself after 26 years of travel in China found it much too difficult to learn Chinese with so many dialects. Each area has its own dialect besides Mandarin which is spoken in most areas of the country with different accents. I gave up years ago. Shanghai people have a special dialect which most other Chinese do not understand as well as Sichuan people as examples. They all try to speak Mandarin to ...