what's the differences between "mandarin" and "Chinese"?
why so many foreigners translate "汉语" into "Mandarin" ? In China, we translate "汉语"into "Chinese".And we even don't know the word "mandarin"at all.Is "mandarin" more common than "Chinese"? what's the differences between "mandarin" and "Chinese"?

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Thanks for all the people helping me

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You're from China. You MUST know what it means when we say "Mandarin". Mandarin is the language spoken in Beijing, as opposed to other "languages" spoken in other provinces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28bureaucrat%29

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Chinese: it's the langage use by all chinese people in China

Mandarin: it's a dialect use by the major folks of China

Ex: you can speak Mandarin or "Cantonnais" (Cantonese).

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Mandarin is 普通话.  The West was historically mostly familiar with 广东话 (Cantonese) through our links with Hong Kong (especially with the mainland being closed up for so long).

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