The next steps are adding more languages, including English to Chinese by the end of the year.
The business opportunity arises from the attractions of an English education to Chinese families.
To most Chinese, English can be a passport to an education abroad or a high-salaried job with a foreign firm in China.
Currently, Internet access is most attractive to young, educated, English-speaking Chinese who can use the Net as a window to the world and a means to communicate with friends and ex-classmates living abroad.
"Two speakers, English and Chinese, will be able to communicate live without having to use the phrasebook or dictionary, " said Mr Davydov.
Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba in 1999 to link Chinese suppliers with retailers abroad.
Nord Anglia had to spend months designing a joint English and Chinese curriculum for its new school in Ningbo City.
Since a beta launch in February 2010, Ushi.cn, which is in both Chinese and English, has grown to more than 200, 000 registered members.
Nick Cucinella, CEO at CareerBuilder China, advises graduates to have a CV in both English and Chinese, even if they don't speak the language, and that taking the initiative and targeting prospective employers and Chinese companies is the best path to a job.
Harvard Business School is among those seeking to tap that market with a new, simultaneously translated program for Chinese CEOs who do not speak English and whose companies are aiming to go international.
The government ships also broadcast warnings in Chinese and English asking Japanese coast guard ships to leave the waters.
In fact, the Chinese-language report translated into English refers to it as "Apple's netbook (or a "tablet" as many call it)" only adding to the confusion.
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To start, Chinese companies should be tweeting the English content that they are already posting on their corporate and investor relations web pages.
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Cheng, naturally, is a serial visitor to the cooking section, snapping up books in both English and Chinese.
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Pansieri, a fluent speaker of English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese, in addition to her native Italian, holds doctorate degrees in philosophy from Milan University and in Chinese language and literature from Venice University.
The concept's English translation is debated, but Mr. Thomas subscribes to the rendering of Chinese Gen.
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The Harvard-educated former diplomat, who speaks fluent English and Chinese, is lauded for his grasp of policy and willingness to speak his mind.
In other words, you hold up your phone to the Chinese language text and the app translates the text into English.
Mr. Chadwick, the adopted Chinese son of English educators, started training at 15 years old to be a jockey apprentice at the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Their goal is to make available Espresso book machines throughout China and reprint Chinese books, English books, French books and others.
The announcement, which you can read in English here, means the end of nearly two years of fixing the Chinese currency to the U.S. dollar, a move that most economists, including many in China, believe is on balance good for both the world and China in the long run.
And I am very sorry that my Chinese is not as good as your English, but I am looking forward to this chance to have a dialogue.
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The others preferred using Chinese when they telephoned, but Willy insisted on English he was determined to learn the language.
In recent years, it has begun to expand that reach, through a pair of Web sites, in Chinese and English, that are loosely modelled on nytimes.com.
An American English teacher gave Mr. Fu the biography of a Chinese intellectual, Xi Shengmo, who converted to Christianity and did good works.
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Germany, for instance, has been a relatively late adopter of blogging only 1% of blogs are in German, according to Technorati, compared with 41% in Japanese, 28% in English and 14% in Chinese.
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Our correspondent says that, according to one well-known Chinese songwriter, My Heart Will Go On is one of two English songs that are well known in China.
The broadcasts include unbiased news reports, call-in shows, English lessons, music, commentary on Chinese affairs and feature programs on everything from health and family matters to economics and the American way of life.
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It was a sporting tragedy that Gascoigne had to end his playing days in the lower divisions of English football before a stint with a second-rate Chinese outfit left him as little more than a novelty circus act for a curious nation.
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