汉语 or 中文 refers to the chinese language with all the dialects, but 普通话 is the dialect of beijing and is the official dialect of china, as the official language to be on TVs and newspaper, like the english, u say (american english - british english - autralian english) and so on.. so mandarin is a chinese dialect

ni hao omar, wo xihuan ni de alaboyu de mingzi hehe^^ diyi, ni de wenti yinggai shi zuowei san ge ge'an ما هو الفرق - ما الفرق - ماذا يكون الفرق bu wen wo "wei shenme" hehe^^ dier, كنت أسكن فى المدينة zhe ge juzi xianshi : 1- shijian zhang huo- 2- huiyi (huai huo hao) huo- 3- ni tongchang hui ti dao zhe ju hua hou yi ge shiqi. **(wo shi shenghuo zai....)** disan, سكنت فى المدينة zhe ge juzi yisi : 1- shijian duan huo- 2- fasheng yici **( wo zai ...... zhu guo le) so 1st of all u should consider that they have the same meaning and they give the same message, but it depends on the rest of the sentence... u can say سكنت فى المدينة عندما كنت صغيراً - كنت أسكن فى المدينة و أنا صغير قرأت القرآن الليلة الماضية - كنت أقرأ القرآن طوال الليل actually ni neng kan, tamen you yi ge yisi, zai kouyu zhe shi hen hao de, bu ren will notice the different, but zai ni de kaoshi, it's different zhu ni luck :) _____________________________________ U can contact me through: Skype : TG.Elhamy MSN : [email protected] QQ : 1901991805 BBM: 20E39432 Facebook : http://facebook.com/TG.Elhamy

i dunno what's going on, something wrong wo de QQ id shi 1901991805