@cody@toweraffiliates 165330 wrote:
What exactly is the difference between Mandarin and Simplified Chinese? Is it a dialect thing or a different language all together?
Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are the two different written languages for Chinese, while Mandarin, and Cantonese for instance, are different spoken dialects/languages.
We actually posted an article about this recently on our blog. 
xxxhttp://www.translationjm.com/the-differences-between-simplified-and-traditional-chinese-writings/