Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world with nearly 1 billion people using it as their first language. Contrary to popular belief, English is only the third most widely spoken language with 322,000,000 native speakers (half a billion if you include those who speak English as a second language).
Mandarin Chinese is the official language of Mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore.
Cantonese Chinese, as spoken by many Chinese residents in the UK, is spoken by only 71 million people in the world. So to get by in Chinese you need to speak Mandarin.
Currently, English is the most widely used language on the Internet by 31% of all Internet users.Mandarin Chinese is the second most used language by nearly 16% of all Internet users. But at current growth rates Mandarin Chinese will outstrip English on the web by 2020.
