What is Pinyin and Mandarin?

Oh well, another English post...

According to Wikipedia, Pinyin means "phonetics" ("spelling sound") and "is currently the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin."

So what is standard mandarin?

Again, as Wikipedia states "Standard Mandarin, or Standard Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore."

That's all we need to know for now. Head over to Wikipedia if you are interested in finding out more.