THE characters for "Africa" in the Mandarin language mean "wrong continent".

在汉语中的意思是“错误的大陆”。

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He reportedly attends daily Mandarin language lessons and is spending time learning about the country's culture.

有报道称，他每天都学习中文，也开始花时间了解中国文化。

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The final Mandarin language broadcast, on 25 March, came a day before the BBC's Vietnamese service transmitted its last radio broadcast after almost 60 years on air.

三月25日进行了最后一次播音，第二天BBC中止了持续60年的越南语广播。

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0% of the websites that may change, two years now, into mostly mandarin or some other language. We don't know.

也许，两年后80%的网站，会变成其他语言,可能是普通话，或者其他语言，我们无法预测。

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"We know the situation in Japan is terrible right now, so we hope that our activities can help the Japanese victims, " said Chinese organizer Jing Yao, a junior aspiring to be Mandarin language teacher.

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The cash-strapped BBC recently ended its World Service Mandarin-language short-wave broadcasts after 70 years.

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And nowhere has it had a greater impact than in Taiwan, where its Mandarin-language Super Channel (TVBS) is the most popular of nearly 70 cable services.

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