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。

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With that said, learning Chinese is no harder than any other language. Studying Mandarin was a refreshing break after the terribly complex grammar of German and French.

在学习过非常复杂的德语和法语语法之后，学习汉语是一个新的突破。

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PUPILS may swap their traditional double French or Spanish lessons - for Urdu and Mandarin Chinese.

小学生们一改学法语或西班牙语作为第二语言的传统，改学乌耳都语和汉语普通话了。

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The top 10 reported languages were English, followed by Polish, Panjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Arabic, French, Chinese (excluding Mandarin and Cantonese, which were the 27th and 40th most commonly-used languages) and Portuguese.

BBC: 138,000 speak no English - census

The French hotel group Accor began adding Chinese television and Mandarin-speaking staff.

NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour