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Then, rich Britons with an eye on the future did not splash out on Chinese nannies so that their offspring might learn Mandarin.

"I'd like it to be next month, but it depends on how fast we develop the market here, " he tells me through a Mandarin interpreter.

Any native or foreigner with at least a high school diploma and a sincere interest in learning Mandarin is welcome to classes at the CLC.

But on their buying trips, Ms. Bradford said, "Peter did my negotiating in Mandarin, which saved me a great deal of money. "

Or watching a film in Mandarin Chinese two-channel, which you wish to shield a channel just to Mandarin, do not know how to do?

The amount of Mandarin Chinese you hear while walking the docks gives you a pretty good clue to what's driving the boat industry in Asia.

One of the members of our party was a native of Chengdu, and of the five Americans, everyone but Hugh and I spoke Mandarin.

My first friends were all English majors, happy to help me with Mandarin and shopping while practicing their English.

I miss being able to switch around Mandarin, English and Singlish, you know.

It has never been a better time to be able to read Mandarin and a financial statement.

Three months later, I telephoned him, in Mandarin of course, and he could not believe that it was me.

He was but a stranger to me. He only spoke Mandarin- a language that I was only able to converse at a very simple level.

Locke, who would be the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing, does not speak Mandarin, only a few words of Taishanese.

Mandarin and English-speaking Chinese Singaporeans seem to be living in two different worlds.

For positions that do not involve teaching English, near fluency in Mandarin is no longer an added bonus, but a prerequisite.

I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

"With Spanish and Mandarin and English, he should be able to do just about anything he wants, " she said.

"He later turned the tape over to a linguist who confirmed that she was speaking in Mandarin, a Chinese dialect, " reveals Dr. Helzinsky.

One teacher said she never speaks English in front of her children, so that they get used to only hearing Mandarin from her.

While it's common to hear a mishmash of foreign languages among the Japanese voices, Mandarin has lately become a growing part of the mix.

To aid instruction, teacher Kennis Wong never speaks English in front of her children, so they get used to only hearing Mandarin from her.

Mr Bolton speaks no Mandarin or Cantonese and by his own admission has always been terrible at foreign languages.

A week later, I found myself spitting out the most complicated Mandarin I've ever spoken during a screening interview to appear on the show.

Mandarin Oriental has signed a long term contract to manage the hotel and has no ownership interest in the building.

David got lost in the village. When he found a pedestrian with a lot of effort, the person turned out not to speak Mandarin at all.

She looks very elegant in a mandarin gown and with a sandalwood fan in her hand.

is trying to talk her 10-year-old daughter, Maia Rosenfeld, into resuming her twice-a-week Mandarin classes at the Ellis School in the fall.

Thus, a Mandarin-speaker unable to comprehend a word of spoken Shanghainese may nevertheless be able to read a Shanghai newspaper.

Many stores in London's West End have appointed Mandarin-speaking assistants to help cash in on the arrival of the "Peking Pound. "

But to say that Mandarin will rival English is a "bit of a stretch" , says Manoj Vohra, Asia director at the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Proficiency in Mandarin and good command of written English. Well in communication. Able to communicate in Cantonese would be an advantage.

Today, I'm thankful for being able to speak Mandarin as it has helped my work and life in Beijing immensely.

But after I got to be a little bit better in Mandarin, I realized that this waschanging my life entirely.

Languages: Engish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Language of Shanghai, Japanese, and a bit of French.

He urged her to sign up for Mandarin because he sees it as a way to get an edge in a global economy increasingly dominated by China.

And then Wood is off, heading back to his hotel - I decide not to ask if it is the Mandarin - for a work-out before a book signing.

Mandarin is now being taught in over 500 primary and secondary schools, and some of them have made it a compulsory course.

Burberry, in return, has at least one Mandarin speaker at each of its flagship stores around the world.

In a statement, the Mandarin Oriental said the 64 employees who worked at the property were all safe.

According to Thomson this man was a sixth-grade mandarin official and a man of letters who possessed two degrees in imperial examinations.

I would be remiss if I did not specifically acknowledge the patience that each of you has shown with my inability to speak Mandarin.

She also describes how a taxi driver, attempting to praise her Mandarin, told her she was "a bit more than half [i. e. , 60%] a Chinese. "

I wanted to be in a Mandarin-Chinese speaking environment, and Taiwan was the logical choice at the time.

A year ago, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change became the first off-Broadway production to be translated into Mandarin.

" i have many friends here as well , " he said at a press conference at the mandarin oriental hotel here on saturday.

Even the books used in the Mandarin classes carry content closely related to the daily lives and cultures of minority groups, he said.

Sometimes she slips into Mandarin instead of her native dialect, prompting her mother to question when she will forget her own parents.

The usual arguments in favor of Mandarin education say that he should be on his way to conquering the world.

Now, she says as she plays a favorite Mandarin pop song on her cellphone, she'd rather learn Chinese.

As you already know, I will be doing both English and Mandarin versions of the album, so I definitely have my work cut out for me.

Locke speaks a bit Cantonese, not Mandarin. But he'll just be another pawn for Hilary Clinton to play. Nothing to see here.

Since then Korean ethnics began to make a life in Tingbian, becoming Chinese of Korean ethnicity, and can speak fluent Mandarin and Korean.

Candidates must be fluent in both Mandarin, English and Cantonese also able to travel both domestically & internationally.

The National Basketball Association is launching its latest reality TV show, but fans will have to understand Mandarin Chinese to watch it.

The researchers believe that this need to interpret intonation is why Mandarin speakers need to use both sides of their brain.

A fluent Mandarin speaker, he had also positioned himself as the first western leader capable of dealing with China on its own terms.

As a young man fluent in Mandarin, he was the translator for Richard Nixon on his first trip to China.

At the hub of operations in London, Mandarin is, of course, useful.

Mr. Cai, who speaks Mandarin with a heavy Fujian province accent, is now a top angel investor in the Internet business.

Who Almost to the town, the young man suddenly said, very slowly talk with "you speak mandarin? "

"All local ethnic autonomous governments compile their own school materials in ethnic languages and Mandarin, " he said.

During the initial years of the campaign, the central rhetorical question was "Mandarin or dialect? "

I can help you with your english if you can help me with my mandarin.

The administration, led by one of a handful of Mandarin-speaking premiers outside Beijing, is instinctively pro-China.

Mandarin is not standard, a hometown accent, but did not hinder chatting atmosphere.

The farmers asked me a lot of questions about Sweden and I answered them as good as I could in my bad Mandarin.

The songwriter and singer picked up the best Mandarin album and best Mandarin male singer trophies for his recent release Cross-generation.

'I had enough of sign language, ' he said, speaking after his third class in Mandarin, China's most widely- spoken dialect on Sunday.

Up to that time, I had never particularly liked Mandarin Pop, which I had heard frequently in Taiwan, but this time it sounded beautiful.

Butterfly bow dance, mandarin duck marine catch, the wind Feelings water, smiling, to greet the person, one pair.

In accordance with the current division, Cantonese Chinese can only be considered a dialect, but far away from the Mandarin.

You know, I'm really glad you decided to learn mandarin. why? -once you're fluent, You'll have a billion more people to annoy instead of me.

In London, meanwhile, estate agencies are recruiting Mandarin-speaking staff.

Hope can find someone who would like to exchange language ( english ) with me . I will be patient in practicing mandarin with you too.

Does anyone remember that baby cry out in 1993, Since then, leisure romantic Zhuhai more of a cultural emissary - Mandarin Bookstore.

Some English-speaking theatergoers will be put off by parts of "Chinglish, " given that about a quarter of the dialogue is in Mandarin.

Like many residents of these hills, Mr. Song does not speak Mandarin Chinese or even Cantonese, the dominant tongue in Guangdong Province.

Luckily he found a Mandarin speaking parent support group.

Implementation of the compulsory school education and a variety of activities, should be used throughout the country to promote Mandarin.

After Mandarin, English is spoken by more people than any other language, and is the native language of more than 350 million people.

If this automatic translation between Chinese mandarin and English on google is precise, I would like to take advantage of it from now on.

It is not unusual to see someone from the Mandarin Service talking to someone from the Urdu Service, both speaking English.

J: Here are a map of the city, and a list of restaurants and clubs, and a list of common expressions in Mandarin Chinese.

Fluent in both written and oral mandarin; able to read and translate English reports with the help of reference books.

Yet, it is just as well-known that English, not Mandarin, is the international language.

Or does she have to spend a year in Beijing, immersed in Mandarin and economic policy?

I'm flattered that you think I speak Mandarin so well.

This was the first and only chance for us to hear Mandarin during our half month in Honghe.

Fluent Mandarin and an adopted Chinese daughter made him a media favorite.

It was not long before he spoke Mandarin, with a trace of the soft Soochow tones.

A whole market-fresh Mandarin Fish is deep fried until crisp then covered with diced green apples and a tangy Tamarind sauce.

3Com said the new CEO is Robert Mao, a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker who was executive vice president of corporate development.

Researchers in Britain have found that people who speak Mandarin Chinese use both sides of their brain to understand the language.

Most Chinese students in minority areas have a choice: To take classes in Mandarin or to take classes in their ordinary language.

Must be able to communicate extremely well in both written and verbal Mandarin and English.

Must be able to communicate in Chinese Mandarin and English, both verbally and writing.

John had been able to speak fluent mandarin when he was 4.

"Mandarin" as "such a language" class historical documents, records of the 35 paragraphs remonstrance speech.

The forensic logic of the Whitehall mandarin does not really apply in such a world.

Objective To establish a mandarin word list of tone discrimination for young children, and to report the initial study of its application.

Two years later, Cheung became the first Hongkong singer to win over the lucrative mandarin speaking market with the album 'Goodbye kiss'.

The Mandarin Campaign was an important event in the education sector of Guangdong after the "Guangdong Guangxi Incident" .

The Confucius Classrooms offer high quality and professional mandarin teachers, who are able to meet growing needs of learning mandarin.

The speech of a cultured Mandarin official is also a beautiful thing to hear.

In Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Japanese and Chinese, there is NO DERAGATORY word for you ugly gooks or other country.

Now she's ready to answer questions -- in Mandarin.

There are many dialects of this Language: Pekingese, Cantonese and Mandarin, to name but a few.

Fluent communication using Mandarin with Local Dyeing Mill, and English with Worldwide Dyeing Mill and customer counterpart as well.

My Chinese-born parents tried to teach me Mandarin when I was a child, but I resisted their efforts and could only speak very brokenly.

The postcard I had was a picture of a language university in Beijing that specialized in teaching Mandarin to foreigners.

Kevin Rudd, as every Australian schoolboy knows, is one of the few Mandarin-speaking leaders outside Beijing.

James: Well, actually a little of both. I' m meeting some business contacts but I' m also taking some Mandarin classes too.

Has received two A-level certificate and a Mandarin teacher qualification psychology and pedagogy examination certificate.

Learn something new. Have you always wanted to know how to say a few words of Mandarin as well as understand what you were saying?

This paper explores the excessive construction, formally represented as "V ta ge N" , in Mandarin Chinese in terms of construction grammar.

Then he had a Chinese-speaking friend vet the applicant to make sure she was speaking flawless Mandarin.

Local residents worry that such a switch would punish older Guangzhou residents who have never learned Mandarin.

In an interview, Wong said she tolerates English in her class, but rewards Mandarin.

Mandarin's "fan" -shaped logo of the cultural meaning of the East, Oriental art, intended to put the East.

Kok Hoe enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience in IT with his students while improving his own spoken and written Mandarin.

Eavesdropping on those conversations, however, would have been difficult for an observer not fluent in Mandarin.

Must be able to preach in Chinese, preferable both in Mandarin and Cantonese .

In addition, some experiences from our previous studies are adopted and a real-time Mandarin singing voice synthesis system is built.

Some of these activities may be conducted in Mandarin and many are free or charge a nominal fee.

Ms. Wu speaks standardized Mandarin -- a clear mark of an education in a rural county where the local dialect dominates.

Already a student of Mandarin and French, he had a basic sense of how to set parameters on language.

For me out side China and cannot talk and read Mandarin might be problem on to get actual info.

The centers are focused on Mandarin, he said, because 'a major part of Taiwanese culture is inherited from the Chinese. '

"I'm a little afraid to talk to you, because you're black, " a parent said to Mr. Cabo, who speaks fluent Mandarin.

Most Indian companies setting up businesses across the Great Wall are asking employees to train in Mandarin.

Mandarin is the standard language as well as the common one of the Han people.

Some Mandarin teachers in Thailand use their time abroad to attend graduate school, which would be too competitive to get into at home.

What I needed was new friends, so I grabbed a taxi and asked, in Mandarin, for an area with lots of bars.

Fluent in reading, writing, speaking Mandarin, and able to speak and write English.

Mandarin tree is the most beautiful tree in the garden. There are many yellow mandarins inside of the green leaves.

Studies on bi comparative sentences in Mandarin Chinese have always been the hot topic in the formal linguistics fields.

Parents shepherding their 6-year-olds into Chinese classes out of a sense that the world will soon be speaking Mandarin can relax.

Other parts of the renovation to take simple, quick solution Mandarin materials, work simplification.

By the time I reached secondary school, ACS was encouraging its ethnic Chinese pupils to take Mandarin as the second language.

Ms. Pu, who was born in Taiwan, grew up in Palo Alto, Calif. , and speaks Mandarin, will graduate from CEIBS in 2012.

Already, Mandarin is one of the fastest-growing language courses in American colleges.

Mandarin Chinese foods are the native diet, which include pork, fish, poultry with a high fat content, rice, soy products and greens.

As an unhappy union official named Joe McDonald put it: "The only bloke I know who can speak Mandarin is Kevin Rudd. "

Mandarin is the most common language of Shanghai, but John has learned only a few courtesy expressions.

Parents demanded that nursery schools offer Mandarin, since it's never too soon to prepare for the competition of a global economy.

By now I was able to speak mandarin, and had grown accustomed to finding bricks and sticks to build forts with my friends.

Many Asian countries have a strong mandarin culture; South Africa and Brazil do not.

Even tougher was working with elderly Japanese and Mandarin speakers who speak in an antiquated, often unintelligible, regional dialect.

I am able to converse well in english and mandarin. I am a man of few words and I do not wish to "advertise" myself.

She said it is very difficult for her, for she is required to use mandarin when she has lessons in school and write in normal Chinese.

The Mandarin Oriental has long-offered a traditional breakfast of rice congee, soy-poached chicken, steamed pork bun and a boiled egg.

Speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese, able to use fluent English in daily communication.

One is more likely to hear Mandarin than English at the trendy shopping arcades.

He was no longer a subconscious, but confirm very much of raised a hand in of that is very delicate, very chemisette mandarin duck sword.

So, at the beginning of this century, we must do in economy construction so as to make Mandarin Chinese popular earlier.

I'm also glad to see an emerging "mandarin fever" in this country.

Richard woke up, found himself in a car in front of the Mandarin Oriental in Central and drove home.

They studied "Pixie" mandarin trees in the Ojai Valley of California. Mandarin oranges are also known as tangerines.

With China buying so much of the world's resources, why are their suppliers not negotiating with them in Mandarin?

Mandarin is the main language in Shenzhen because of the migrants. Cantonese is only a dialect here.

My new album should be Mandarin. Probably it may include a few Cantonese songs as bonus tracks.

In Mandarin Chinese, event classifier is an important component of the system of classifiers.

For example, you need to be very sure of the word's meaning and connotations in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

Everyone knows that there are more speakers of Mandarin than any other language in the world.

He grew up in Taiwan, went to Columbia and Carnegie-Mellon and is fluent in both English and Mandarin.

She was a guest of the Mandarin Oriental hotel and the travel company Carrier.

Some four decades later, Beveridge was a Whitehall mandarin, charged with designing Britain's first comprehensive welfare state.

College or above, Male, no limit to nationality, Being able to communicate with colleagues with Mandarin is better, but not mandatory.

We cordially invite talented individuals with potential to join Mandarin Oriental, Sanya and grow hand in hand with us for a bright future.

Film in the large Al and Kate are a pair of mandarin ducks desperate.

The second chapter analyses the inside consistency and difference of Taoyuan southwest mandarin in terms of initial, final, tone.

"Are they going to turn back the tide? " my colleague asked incredulously, in Mandarin.

The fireworks display outside CCTV's new Beijing headquarters caused a fire in an adjacent structure housing the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Roger: Sure, my Mandarin teacher saw, she must be very happy!

You speak better mandarin than average Chinese. You buy Chinese newspapers cause you forgot you used not to read Chinese.

The one who can speak fluent Mandarin and oral English and have high-level working performance can be awarded with a higher pay.

Professionals fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English are in demand across the region, especially in home-sweet-home China.

The research on mandarin text-to-speech is in three aspects: Text to PinYin conversion, prosodic parameter prediction, and speech synthesis.

Mandarin or other Chinese dialects are the largest language group, Fung said.

It goes without saying that the promotion of Mandarin can better make for the communication of people all around the country.

The long gown and mandarin jacket will giver the impression of comfortableness and ease as well as sobriety.

I used to have understanding of the range of mandarin.

In former days, the only southerners who knew Mandarin were the wealthy and well educated.

But she denied the rumour at a press before the concert, saying that mandarin is too hard to sing during a live concert.

Mandarin: Today I stand here, you have the ability to move me to try. Do not look at your child a large, desperate I killed a brick you.

There have been requests for me to host a TV show. But my Mandarin is worse than basic.

The company has actively been recruiting fashion editors in New York and Europe who can also speak and write in Mandarin.

The U. S. would continue broadcasts in Chinese by bolstering Radio Free Asia's Mandarin-language broadcasts.

The syllable's role in Chinese (Mandarin) speech production was investigated using masked syllable priming combined with a word naming task.

Age from 25 onwards, excellent at Mandarin, ability to understand Cantonese will be an advantage.

Good communication skill, Mature and able to communicate well in Mandarin.

The New York Marriott Marquis also serves a traditional Chinese breakfast in its Encore Restaurant and has Mandarin speakers on staff.

Police suspect fireworks to be the cause of the blaze at the 40-story Mandarin Oriental.

He was 17, could barely speak Mandarin and was awestruck by the straightness of the city's poplar-lined roads.

The 102-year-old linguist is renowned as the "father of pinyin" , the system for representing standard Mandarin in the Roman alphabet.

I'm a both Mandarin and Cantonese speaker, so I'd like you to choose Chinese the language which sounds best.

I speak Mandarin and an important part of my job is to make sure both sides understand each other clearly.

As well as the Mandarin Oriental hotel, the tower was designed to include a theatre, recording studios and cinemas.

In my experience, interviewing established professors is sometimes akin to having an audience with a ranking mandarin.

She speaks mandarin with a strong accent.

Who says Beijing dialect differences with Mandarin is not a good example to distinguish between southerners?

Harrods employs 40 Mandarin speaking staff and said that half the visitors on the first day of its Christmas sale were Chinese.

His first world headquarters was a shed he rented in 1974 in a gritty Taipei suburb called Tucheng , which means Dirt City in Mandarin .

The fourth chapter analyses the difference of Hunan mandarin in terms of initial, final, tone.

So far, many international hotels like Mandarin Oriental have opened resorts in Sanya.

The developing world is going a step further, as Pakistan's decision to make Mandarin compulsory in schools has shown.

Three Mandarin ducks sit in formation on a handrail at the National Zoo in Washington, D. C. It was amazing to experience.

He has what we call in Mandarin, "the face of an angel and the body of a devil" .

Excellent communication skills with both mandarin and english, fluent Garman is an advantage and strong at problem solving.

Skills Required: Must be computer literate, be fluent in Mandarin and have competent spoken as well as written English.

Priority to understand Mandarin Chinese, China-related institutions also have a solid contact priority.

One of my classmates took away my mandarin book during class this afternoon.

Mandarin Function : Regulates oil glands, sebum secretions &restores skin electrolyte balances, tightening pores &leaves skin clear matt.

The various reports can be produced in five languages: English, French, Spanish, German or Mandarin.

Our team is built up of a group of professional Mandarin teachers with passion for education and Chinese culture.

No matter if it's talking Mandarin or not.

Radio Free Asia, which started broadcasting in Mandarin in 1996, reached an even smaller share of the audience and was less well-known.

She is fluent in Mandarin, an increasingly valuable skill in London's residential real estate market.

One company, Which has not such vital links with Mainland China describes Mandarin proficiency in interviews as "icing on the cake" .

Excellent ability of communication, coordination and negotiation, standard mandarin speaking.

"All ethnic groups are also free to choose whether to take Mandarin courses or not, " Zhang said.

China combines admirable mandarin traditions with a culture ofguanxi (connections) and corruption.

They are like white water facing the mandarin fish, is the nature of their talent despite years of white water.

Phonologically , Cause needs to be satisfied by head movement or BA insertion in Mandarin Chinese.

If you are a foreigner living in the city, we will provide you with all the Mandarin training you will need for your work and daily life.

She is an exchange student from the Netherlands and I met her at the Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University.

A Chinese bid or purchase of a large stake in Rio Tinto would test Kevin Rudd, Australia's Labor prime minister, who speaks Mandarin.

In 10 years, we should be able to get Mandarin established as the language of the coffee shop, of the hawker center, of the shops.

Mostly, though, Mandarin in the hands of a toddler is not a practical tool.

Have good telephone communication skills and excellent telephone negotiation skills. Standard Mandarin fluently.

Mandarin as the standard Chinese pronunciation has already been accepted widely and advocated throughout China.

S. I stumbled upon an elderly couple speaking Mandarin in a park near my wife's family home in the small town of Bay City, Michigan.

He spent the first year and a half of his life in the Chinese capital, the seat of standard Mandarin.

When they knew that I was from Mainland China, they were surprisingly friendly and they even talked to me in fluent Mandarin.

And Marion Wong was president of Mandarin Film Company, reported to be "the only Chinese producing concern" in America.

The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.

The shows are in Mandarin and the central theme is "Creativity is thinking out of the box" .

At these elite institutions, Mandarin Chinese is sometimes taught as a second language.

Oral mandarin skills of communication is an element for learning Chinese well, and also a diathesis necessary for modern men.

If you are a Foreigners, you have to understand Chinese culture, can listen to and speak Mandarin.

A wine of good length displaying refreshing flavors of lime and mandarin with balanced acidity on the finish.

Students in Guangzhou have been penalized for speaking Cantonese, and teachers must pass a Mandarin proficiency exam.

Also, this paper tries to language development and language standard two perspectives in the format of the mandarin development trend.

The top notes of bergamot, pink pepper and mandarin wrap the fragrance in a light and fresh complexion.

Its hair is very smooth, there are a pair of mandarin ducks eyes, one blue, one yellow, very beautiful.

I would like to help you learn the best Mandarin and Chinese Culture.

I felt guilty as well as relieved for I had indeed "fooled" the Mandarin speakers in believing that I was thoroughly conversant in Mandarin.

Ben said he and his friends are visiting China again this summer. He hopes he can speak fluent Mandarin by then.

This word group in dialect of northeast China is similar to that in Mandarin yet has remarkable regional features.

Since he speaks Mandarin without a distinct accent, others volunteers concluded he was from north China.