Yet anecdotal evidence suggests that there is little call for Britons with Mandarin.
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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.
The group's Lifetime Achievement award went to chef and restaurateur Cecilia Chiang, who founded San Francisco's Mandarin Restaurant and has been credited with introducing Mandarin cuisine to the United States.
As Dodington speaks the Shanghai dialect with a Southern drawl and Lee chats in Mandarin with a Californian twist, Fu, too, has discovered the connection between his musical notes and the city that effortlessly blends East and West.
Pair grey with white for business, with camel for weekends, with gold for evenings and with lime or mandarin for casual.
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Neo's character, an unpolished Chinese-educated executive, speaks Mandarin with his wife, inadequate English in the office and Hokkien with his coffee-shop buddies.
As a Mandarin speaker with a small company, she often had the edge over larger, more bureaucratic Western and Japanese companies.
Growers began covering their mandarin trees with nets to keep out bees.
Iron Man 3 follows Tony Stark's battle with terrorist "the Mandarin".
With top notes of mandarin, grapefruit and neroli, it awakens the senses like an amuse-bouche, before revealing lingering notes of Iris pallida (a sweetly scented variety native to Italy).
Switzerland's has a website with local attractions explained in Mandarin.
So should someone with good linguistic ability who studies Mandarin in China full-time for three years.
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For this reason, Britons at home never need to use Mandarin in their dealings with Chinese firms.
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For drinks with a view, try the Mandarin Hotel at Columbus Circle for a spectacular panorama overlooking Central Park.
It's why he speaks Mandarin and is partnering with two clinics in China.
Before arriving each morning, he works out with a personal trainer or studies Mandarin, which he is learning in preparation for the trip to China.
Mr. Distefano's own son is studying Mandarin in high school, with an eye towards possibly working in Asia.
Mandarin is also the only chain with a 5-Star in tourist mad Las Vegas.
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Zuckerberg has visited China a couple of times, met with Internet execs there, and is learning Mandarin.
Earlier this month, I met with Kaspersky Lab COO Eugene Buyakin at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Boylston Street in Boston.
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Since moving back to Sonoma in 2010, Ms. Ching and her older daughter regularly Skype with a teacher in Chengdu to maintain their Mandarin.
Mr. Rogers, who started Quantum Fund with financier George Soros, doesn't know Mandarin and had never lived in Asia.
For instance Best Western, Carlson, Mandarin Oriental and others have teamed up with Clean the World, an initiative that recycles your partially used soap from the hotel room.
The Museum of Chinese in America kicks off its Lunar New Year Family Festival on 2 February with performances by local dancers, kid-centric Mandarin workshops, hands-on arts and crafts projects and a chance to learn more about Chinese holiday customs and rituals.
With eight North American hotels (Bermuda is unranked) Mandarin Oriental managed four 5-Stars and three 4-Stars, and notably its wonderful Miami hotel was elevated from 4 to 5-Stars this year.
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Mandarin competence takes 2, 200 class hours, with half of that time spent in a country where it's spoken, according to the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute, whereas Spanish can be learned in 600 to 750 class hours.
They advanced much more quickly than if they had tried to climb the career ladder in the U.S. One young woman who works in financial services is already doing deals with senior Chinese executives even though she doesn't speak Mandarin.
Those are tiny numbers compared with the four million students studying Spanish in this country, but Mandarin's appeal is growing, both because of economic prospects and because of an expanding Chinese immigrant population here.
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