Chinese isn't the name of a language - Mandarin is the most widely common language in the Sino-Tibetan group. There are approximately 885 million first language speakers of Mandarin, but even Mandarin has dialects, so there exists a Standard Mandarin. The rest of China, and even some Mandarin natives, speaks different Chinese languages.
Roughly 1.2 billion people speak Chinese as their first language, making it the most spoken language in the world.
People in Taiwan speak Chinese
Mandarin Language. The Chinese can speak this language. People in new zealand cant
Tibetan and Chinese
Some Chinese people do speak French, particularly individuals who have studied the language or lived in French-speaking countries. Chinese students may also learn French as a foreign language in school. However, the majority of Chinese people do not speak French as their primary language.
They speak manadarin, Chinese, Cantonese, and English
Mandarin Chinese is the largest spoken language in the world based on the number of native speakers. It is estimated that over a billion people speak Mandarin Chinese as their first language.
Over a billion people worldwide speak Chinese as their native language, making it the most spoken language in the world. There are also many second language speakers of Chinese, further increasing the total number of individuals who speak the language.
Two independent countries have Chinese as the predominant mother tongue and official language: the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan).
Approximately 2.2% of the Australian population speak Chinese as their primary language at home.
Chinese has second greatest number of people who speak it, after English. (Note: While more people speak Chinese primarily than those who primarily speak English, more have English as a primary or secondary language than have Chinese as a primary or secondary language.)
The most common first language, or mother tongue, is Mandarin Chinese. Around a billion people speak it as a first language, most of them situated in China and Taiwan. This language also has the highest number of total speakers, that's is, including people that speak it as a second or third language. The most geographically widespread native language is probably Spanish, which is the everyday language in over 20 countries on four continents.