Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.
Quotes about mandarin (16 Quotes)
The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
China is an opening market. Job opportunities would just explode for someone who spoke English and Mandarin.
Honduran cooks learn Mandarin. Mexican clerks learn Korean. Most often, people learn Spanish.
Mandarin has to be used as the main language, especially at school.
Americans are way behind in studying Mandarin Chinese. The language is so hard that many students give up.
Ritz-Carlton had the highest number of wealthy consumers reporting stays in the past 18 months (26.9), with Four Seasons second (21.6 ). However, Mandarin Oriental, with only 5.1 reported stays, received the highest Customer Experience Index score, 89, edging out Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons, both at 87.
My first roommate was from Hong Kong and spoke perfect English. He also spoke Mandarin and Cantonese but wanted to learn business and legal terms, ... My second roommate was from Northern Ireland. He had taught English in Japan for two years but wanted to work in China.
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit andvivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.
He also managed to squeeze in some sightseeing visiting the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. Still, most of his energy was expended in the classroom, where he learned how to read and write Mandarin. After awhile, I gave up writing, ... But I still could comprehend the characters.
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
Right now, we should all be learning Mandarin. We are going to be so impacted by the growth of China and India.
Getting to the stage where over half of the people can speak Mandarin is still a key success.
How sad it will be if in three or four centuries all that is spoken in the world is English, Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese and a handful of European languages, ... We will also lose much healing knowledge and much conservation knowledge embedded in indigenous cultures.
We have to think carefully about which languages those are. French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.