In Fujian Province, a light cavalry team of propaganda was organized and established, going down to countryside fields and seaside fishing villages to propagate the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress in both local dialect and mandarin,

He speaks in a dialect.

We're designing for this machine dialect.

Mandarin Speaker Mandarin PK So what have we done to their little brains?

Can you speak Mandarin?

Can you speak Mandarin?

This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese.

He is fluent in Mandarin.

I cannot speak Mandarin well.

Yes, I can speak Mandarin.

Can anyone here speak Mandarin?

There are people speaking Mandarin.

Do you study Mandarin there?

Are you able to speak Mandarin?

But we find 40 different names of clouds in this dialect used here.

There's a poem by Jack Gilbert called The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.

Promoting Mandarin Chinese is China's national plan.

What does Shanghai people's Mandarin sound like?

How many years have you studied Mandarin for?

This official effort to portray native Taiwanese as a separate ethnic group, with scant relation to Chinese culture, was extended to language, as Chen favored using the Fujian dialect in lieu of the Mandarin spoken by 1.3 billion Chinese and taught all over the world. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education sought to expunge all references to China in school textbooks.

She can speak Chinese, but she can't speak Mandarin.

Babies flop out, they're flashing Mandarin flashcards at the things.

Not only can he speak Mandarin, but Shanghainese as well.

People from Shanghai speak Shanghainese they can also speak Mandarin.

This year, I learnt my first 500 words in Mandarin.

The optional dialect parameter was added in PHP 4.0.0 and is functional only with InterBase 6 and up.

What we did was expose American babies during this period to Mandarin.

She can speak a type of Chinese, but she can't speak Mandarin.

I can speak Standard Chinese (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Wu Chinese, and Spanish.

But look at what happened to the babies exposed to Mandarin for 12 sessions.

Mandarin, English, and Arabic are all examples of the world's most widely spoken languages.

If we were speaking Mandarin Chinese with each other, though, I wouldn't have that luxury.

And we can see from the graph that exposure to English didn't improve their Mandarin.

Exactly what method did you use to improve your Mandarin in such a short space of time?

The easiest way to overcome problem is to learn a little bit of Mandarin something easier than one might think.

We knew that, when monolinguals were tested in Taipei and Seattle on the Mandarin sounds, they showed the same pattern.

You yourself belong to this group of people that you're talking about the one that doesn't speak standard Mandarin well.

You yourself belong to this group of people that you're talking about the one that doesn't speak standard Mandarin well.

Chen Feifei came to the fort to recall the history. She is the first broadcaster of the Southern Fujian Dialect at the Fujian Frontline Broadcasting Station at that time.

We had to run a control group to make sure that just coming into the laboratory didn't improve your Mandarin skills.

And we tested this by exposing American babies who'd never heard a second language to Mandarin for the first time during the critical period.

It was like having Mandarin relatives come and visit for a month and move into your house and talk to the babies for 12 sessions.

Few people dream of becoming Chinese, or of learning its various languages other than Mandarin. By contrast, English, Spanish, French, and, increasingly, German transcend national boundaries.

Confucius Institutes are sprouting from Sri Lanka to Nigeria to promote the study of Mandarin. Alongside these linguistic programs are seasonal performances by touring Chinese acrobats.

The seventh reason to believe in Europe is linked to the universalism of its message and languages. Few people dream of becoming Chinese, or of learning its various languages other than Mandarin.