Oct 23, 2014. 1  When Mark Zuckerberg gave a Q&A in Mandarin Chinese, the Facebook founder left his audience of Beijing college students—and the rest of the world—stunned and impressed.
http://time.com/3534248/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-chinese/
7 Famous People Who Surprised Us by Speaking Chinese. When Mark Zuckerberg gave a Q&A in Mandarin Chinese, the Facebook founder left his audience of Beijing college students—and the rest of the world—stunned and impressed.
http://time.com/3534248/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-chinese/
Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 percent of Chinese speakers and a huge area stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese
Mandarin (/ˈmændərɪn, -drɪn/; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally: speech of officials) is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese
Cantonese is spoken by more than 60 million people in China, according to the state-run China Daily -- on a par with Italian in terms of native speaker numbers. But some in Guangzhou worry that as young people and their parents focus on Mandarin for academic and career reasons, Cantonese may fall by the wayside.
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest-cantonese-speaking-region-to-speak-mandarin-2014-8
Mandarin (pŭtōnghuà, guóyŭ, huáyŭ) is the most widely spoken of all Chinese dialects spoken as a first language in a vast area of northern and southwestern mainland China.
http://aboutworldlanguages.com/mandarin
The use of Standard Mandarin has facilitated communication among people who speak a variety of mutually unintelligible dialects and languages. As a result, Standard Mandarin is now spoken with varying degrees of fluency and with differences in pronunciation by most people in mainland China and in Taiwan. Singapore.
http://aboutworldlanguages.com/mandarin
I speak Mandarin; I'm a professor, he said. Kindergarten, primary school, middle school, high school, college: the language of education is Mandarin. Cantonese has a greater range of tones than Mandarin, as well as a choppier sound to an untutored Western ear.
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest-cantonese-speaking-region-to-speak-mandarin-2014-8
Mastering the Basics. Practice using the four Mandarin tones. Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language, which means that different tones can change the meaning of a word, even if the pronunciation and spelling are otherwise the same. It is essential to learn the different tones if you wish to speak Mandarin Chinese correctly.
http://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Mandarin-Chinese
A lot of kids, they speak only Mandarin at school, said Huang Xiaoyu, a 28-year-old media worker. And at home, their mum will speak to them in Cantonese but the kids will respond in Mandarin. Very, very few little kids these days speak Cantonese.
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest-cantonese-speaking-region-to-speak-mandarin-2014-8
who speaks mandarin chinese
Mandarin Chinese is spoken across most of Northern and Southwestern China. Across most of northern and southwestern China speaks mandarin Chinese.