THE characters for "Africa" in the Mandarin language mean "wrong continent".
在汉语中的意思是“错误的大陆”。
I am a Chinese man living in Seattle who would like to offer Chinese Mandarin language lessons.
我是中国人，我现在住在西雅图，我将要开设中文语言课程。
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。
You see, if you really want to impress your Chinese girlfriend or your Japanese boyfriend, don't send them a Japanese or Mandarin language card.
英语就是这种时髦语言。如果你真的想给你的中国女友或日本男友留下深刻的印象，不要给他们送日语或汉语贺卡。
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。
In January, Chelsea launched a Mandarin language website for China and there are plans for further websites in other markets, according to chief executive Peter Kenyon.
切尔西刚在一月启用了专为中国而设的国语网站，而根据执行总裁彼得。肯扬透露，俱乐部亦有计划继续开拓其他市场的网站。
Designed for children who have some Mandarin background and aim for developing higher fluency of the four aspects of Mandarin language, including listening, speaking, reading and writing.
针对有一定中文基础的孩子，在短期内全面提高孩子的听说读写能力。
About 10 percent of students in the Portland, Oregon public schools are assigned by lottery to dual-language classrooms that offer instruction in Spanish, Japanese or Mandarin, alongside English.
俄勒冈州波特兰市公立学校中，大约10%的学生经过抽签被分配到双语课堂，除了接受英语教学，还有西班牙语、日语或中文教学。
The official language of China is Putonghua, while the foreigners usually call it Mandarin.
中国的官方语言是普通话，而外国人通常称之为 Mandarin。
Already, Mandarin is one of the fastest-growing language courses in American colleges.
目前普通话已经是美国大学里增长最快的语言课程之一。
Mandarin is the most common language of Shanghai, but John has learned only a few courtesy expressions.
普通话是上海最常用的语言，但是约翰只学会几句礼貌用语。
About 50 years ago, English had more native speakers than any language except Mandarin.
大约50年前，除了汉语之外，以英语为母语的人口超过了其它任何语言。
GLM's figure gives English twice as many words as Mandarin Chinese, the world's second most abundant language.
GLM的数据显示英语的单词数量是世界上使用者第二多的语言——汉语普通话的两倍。
They make for perfect Mandarin lessons, with simple, colloquial language, clear voices, and repetitive dialogues.
卡通是最好的普通话课程，有简单、口语化的语言，清晰地声音，不断重复的对话。
Like it or not, English has become the international language of communication. While more people speak Mandarin as a native tongue, English is the language most used as a second language.
不管你是否愿意，英语已经成为用于交流的一种国际语言，当更多的人以普通话为母语时，英语则成为使用最多的第二语言。
According to the Center for Applied Linguistics, in 2008 only 4 percent of middle and high schools that offer foreign-language instruction included Mandarin.
根据应用语言学中心的统计，2008年，美国为学生提供外语教学(包括普通话)的中学只占4%。
I later learned that "Mandarin" means the official spoken Chinese language.
后来我才知道，“Mandarin”是指：正式的汉语口头语言。
Among the seven languages, Mandarin Chinese is by far the most popular language under the high school program.
在中学语言项目的7种语言中，汉语普通话是最受欢迎的语言。
This entailed completing my second language certification (I speak Mandarin Chinese and French), as Insead requires proficiency in three languages at graduation, two at the time of entrance.
为入学，我得通过第二外语考试(我会说法语和普通话)，因为欧洲工商管理学院要求学生毕业前能够流利使用三门语言，入学时必须会说两门。我还需要在新加坡找住房。
This collaboration is on display as the festival showcases a number of Chinese-language movies -- in Mandarin, Cantonese and other dialects -- nearly all with English subtitles.
电影节上会有普通话、广东话及其它方言的中文电影，展示了这种合作的成果，但这些影片几乎都配有英文字幕。
Between us we have only a few words of Mandarin and, worse, I'm a vegetarian, but the waitress tries to help us, using a mixture of sign language and broken English.
我们只懂很少几个普通话词语，再加上我是一个素食者，但是女服务员试图用手势和蹩脚的英语来和我们沟通。
The 11-language version contains several that are useful, like Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese and Russian, and two that are really useless: Dutch and Swedish.
这款11国语言的版本包括有常用的语言，例如西班牙语、汉语、日语、俄语，和两种不常用的语言：荷兰语和瑞典语。
The "slowest" language, Mandarin, partly thanks to the four tones, has around 2000 possible syllables, far more than Japanese or Spanish.
语速最慢的汉语普通话有大约2000个音节，比日语和西班牙语多得多。有四个音调也是普通话语速慢的部分原因。
ON A small street in Singapore’s Chinatown Fu Xianling, the founder of a language-education company called New Concept Mandarin, searches for additional office space.
在新加坡唐人街，一条小街上，付祥林正在为他的汉语教育公司“新概念汉语”寻找扩张的空间。
Others, such as PS 20 on the Lower East Side, have opted for dual-language programs, where half of the class is fluent in English and the other half is fluent in Mandarin.
而位于下东区的PS20等其他学校则选择了双语课程，班上一半的学生英文流利，另一半则精通普通话。
And we did it mostly in Mandarin - a language I speak poorly at best - with occasional forays into English when my comprehension skills failed.
我们大都说中文——我充其量说得不好——当我理解不了的时候，偶尔说一下英语。
And we did it mostly in Mandarin - a language I speak poorly at best - with occasional forays into English when my comprehension skills failed.
我们大都说中文——我充其量说得不好——当我理解不了的时候，偶尔说一下英语。
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