Fast Chinese Learning
To learn Chinese, we should first make sure what we would like to learn. According to the definitaion of Chinese on Wikipedia, Chinese language is a language or language family that forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
There are many dialects in China. The most important dialect is Mandarin, which is spoken by more than 90% of the Chinese people in China. Mandarin is a dialect usually referred to beifanghua (northern speech).
My native language is Chinese (Mandarin). It is interested that my parants' native languages are not Mandarin. The modernization makes chinese people nowadays more commonly use Mandarin as the common language.
Standard Mandarin is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore, and widely used by overseas Chinese. Standard Mandarin itself is usually just called "Mandarin" in non-academic, everyday usage.
Mandarin is actually a vocal representation of Chinese. To speak in Chinese, usually we assume that you speak Mandarin.
Many of my friends are interested in learning Chinese. After learning English, Japanease, and Spanish, I am trying to develop the fast way for learning Chinese efficiently. I hope this information would help.