Is the spoken language named differently from its written form? the spoken language is 普通话. its written form, we call it 汉字. En général, vous devriez prendre le cours de 汉语, et vous auriez apprendre à parler 普通话 et écrire les 汉子。 :)

普通话=中国官话(old fashioned)=标准普通话=Mandarin.(标准 means standard) 汉语=Chinese.Most of the time it refers to Mandarin while sometimes it means all the languages in China. 中文 means Chinese or Chinese characters and passages.

中文 simplified Chinese character or traditional full-form Chinese characters are both 中文 普通话（标准普通话）=中国官方语言=Mandarin if you are learning Chinese，then you are learning 中文 traditional full-form Chinese characters（which used in Taiwan ，HK,Japan，Korea。。。） simplified Chinese character is used in mainland of China both traditional full-form Chinese characters and simplified Chinese character can be spoken in Mandarin，or other dialects,like Cantonese . but I think it's best to learn to speak mandarin because it's official and most widely used. thank you

中文，普通话，中国官话，标准普通话 --------------------------------------------------- 中文: 泛指所有中国的语言，包括地方方言 普通话： 中文的一种，也是中国的官话。 标准普通话: 一般我们说普通话，就是指的标准普通话。

Officially, we also call it 汉语，thx