Four weeks later, he had talked his way (speaking English and Mandarin helped) into a job as John Lone's double.
Sorvino is a Mandarin-speaking Harvard University graduate who spent a college year abroad in Beijing.
Canny tour operators at these destinations have been catering to the market by providing Mandarin-speaking guides and brochures.
These latter African student figures are of high significance, since the programs would dramatically increase the number of Mandarin-speaking Africans.
On January 15th a young Mandarin-speaking girl dropped some dried noodles she had been nibbling on a Hong Kong underground train.
The French hotel group Accor began adding Chinese television and Mandarin-speaking staff.
Department stores like Selfridges now employ dozens of Mandarin-speaking staff.
"People think, 'OK, a lot of stuff happening in the world will be in China, ' and they want their kids to be ahead of the game, so they hire Mandarin-speaking nannies from us, " she says.
Zuckerberg himself has been taking Mandarin-speaking lessons.
High-end stores such as Tiffany, a world-renowned jeweller, and luxury watch retailer Tourneau are catering to Chinese tourists with Mandarin-speaking sales staff, Chinese size charts and visits by sales reps to China to update tour operators on their US retail offerings.
Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.
If the Mandarin-speaking Rudd's open attitudes to China (which, granted, come easier in a nation that sells so much to the Chinese) are instructive for America's protectionist social democrats, the new prime minister is in a position to serve not just his countrymen but globalization's cause.
As I was debating whether I should get the Gucci sunglasses, I overheard some women speaking my native tongue, Mandarin.
Still, there are millions of people speaking other languages -- including French, German, Mandarin, Arabic and lesser known languages -- that also benefit from bilingual workers.
Rupert Murdoch's satellite network had been asked to beam Mandarin-only shows, giving Wharf Cable an edge in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong.
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