... China, amounting to about three-quarters of all Chinese, are native speakers of a Mandarin sub-dialect: Beijing Mandarin, Shandong Mandarin, Sichuan Mandarin, etc. As mentioned above, the remaining ... than the varieties of English as spoken in England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, the United States, and Canada. The di erence between a Mandarin sub-dialect and a dialect is that sub-dialect ... that Mandarin is one of several dialects , all of which are Chinese. ” While most urban Chinese today will be able to speak, or at least understand, Mandarin, it is spoken as the native tongue...