What do you mean by "Chinese"? There are thousands of what are called "dialects" but in reality they are totally different languages with different grammars an

What do you mean by "Chinese"? There are thousands of what are called "dialects" but in reality they are totally different languages with different grammars and so on. They do share a common script but that doesn't tell much about the spoken language (since it applies to all of them afaik).