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7 unusual facts about Mandarin Chinese


Aisa Senda

She is capable of speaking both Japanese and Mandarin, and had appeared in a number of commercials, programs, and television dramas.

Changshan

The Mandarin Chinese word changshan is cognate with the Cantonese term chèuhngsàam, which has been borrowed into English as "cheongsam".

Demographics of the United Arab Emirates

Other languages spoken in the UAE, due to immigration, include Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Pashto, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Balochi, Russian, Somali language, Tagalog, Nepali and Mandarin Chinese.

Mac Tonight

Recently, Taiwan has begun to run Mac Tonight ads with Mac speaking Mandarin Chinese.

Neoma

(你好嗎), a Mandarin Chinese expression written in Pinyin which means "How are you?"

William Scorpion

Within 5 months, he had gained such a fan following and recognition from local music producers that he was offered a starring role in Channel 8's prime time (8:00 - 10:00 PM UTC+08:00) live Mandarin singing show, called Live At Studio One, produced by Studio One.

Xiandai

Xiàndài (现代) is a term meaning modern or Modern Era in Mandarin Chinese.


Amairo no Kami no Otome

The song has been covered several times, including by the J-Pop group Mi-Ke, the singer Hitomi Shimatani, and a Mandarin version by Cyndi Wang.

Big World

The front cover of the album features the phrase "Big World" in French, Persian, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Thai, Russian, Irish Gaelic, Armenian, Hindi, Hebrew, Indonesian, Arabic, and Polish.

Cégep de l'Outaouais

While French is the main teaching language at the institution, there are also courses offered in English, Spanish, German and Mandarin.

Chinese punctuation

For example, "Leonardo da Vinci" in simplified Chinese: "列奥纳多‧达‧芬奇" (a Mandarin translation) and traditional Chinese: "李奧納多‧達‧文西" (a Cantonese translation).

Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus

The Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus (fondly called "Sagrado", Abbreviation: CSCJ; Mandarin Chinese: 圣心学院; Pinyin: Shèng Xīn Xué Yuàn) is a private, Catholic, co-educational institution of learning owned and administered by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul located at General Hughes St. Iloilo City, Philippines.

Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation

The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation (讀音統一會 Pinyin: Dúyīn Tǒngyī Huì) was established in the Republic of China from 1912 to 1913 to select ancillary phonetic symbols for Mandarin, (Zhuyin was the product) and set the standard Guoyu pronunciation of basic Chinese characters.

Directory service

This matching is available on multiple languages including Pinyin and Traditional Mandarin.

Early 2012 Hong Kong protests

In January 2012, Ken Wai, a Hong Kong passenger, asked a Mainland Chinese woman and her child to stop eating on an MTR subway in Mandarin Chinese on a train bound for Mong Kok East Station.

Four-Corner Method

The northern Mandarin pronunciations were given in the "Guoyu Luomazi", devised by linguist Zhao Yuanren, as well as in Mandarin Phonetic System (MPS) characters with a dotted corner for tone.

Fuzhou dialect

Quite a few words from Ancient Chinese (mainly Ancient Wu and Ancient Chu) have retained the original meanings for thousands of years, while their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese have either fallen out of daily use or varied to different meanings.

Glow-Worm Caves Tamborine Mountain

Tours consist of a seven minute DVD (available in English, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean), photo opportunities in front of the stalactites and stalagmites, and finally a 15 minute tour through "glow worm alley".

Goldsboro High School

In addition, Eikenberry has studied in Hong Kong at the UK Ministry of Defence Chinese Language School, earning the Foreign Office's Interpreter’s Certificate for Mandarin Chinese, and also studied at Nanjing University, earning an advanced degree in Chinese History.

James Lee Guy

Two years later, in 2002, Guy left his job to study Mandarin Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University and immediately afterwards came the arrival his first son, Alexander born on his Chinese wedding anniversary.

Japanese Sign Language family

Although Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin are unrelated, those using JSL, KSL and TSL can interact easily because of the commonalities all share, such as functional markers .

Jing Dianying

In 1912 Jing enrolled in an American Methodist Middle School in Taian and was later hired as a teacher by the Methodist missionary Nora Dellinbeck, a teacher of Mandarin Chinese.

Kangkar Pulai

It is a primary school that has its students taught in Mandarin Chinese, the language teachers use, the text books students use are communicated in Mandarin, apart from Malays class or English class of course.

Katie White

Katie was working in a boutique with a Chinese girl called "Ting Ting," which sounds like Mandarin Chinese for "band stand" () or "listening" (聽) and Katie used it as name for the band.

KVMD

Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, and Armenian and KVMD's owner, Ronald Ulloa, is also president and majority owner of KXLA.

Leshan dialect

The Sichuanese dialect of the city of Leshan is a variety of Minjiang, which preserves old southern (Ba-Shu) features lost in other Sichuanese dialects and is very different from the dialects of most other cities in the province of Sichuan, which are more typically Mandarin.

Mercia MacDermott

Due to her father's work in the navy, she spent some of her early years in Weihai, China, and Mercia learned Mandarin Chinese.

Mesona

Exemplar species in this genus are Mesona procumbens Hemsley and Mesona chinensis, generically called xiancao (仙草) in Mandarin Chinese, sian-chháu in Taiwanese, and leung fan cao (涼粉草) in Cantonese, sương sáo in Vietnamese.

Puffed rice cakes

Traditionally, Wor Bar (Guoba in Mandarin, translates to "pot's burnt") refers to the slightly browned rice that is stuck to the bottom of clay pots, which, after caramelization, results in the rice being formed into a single piece and giving it a slightly burned flavor.

Standfast

Standfast is well known in the Mandarin music scene due to the appearance of their track "Lullaby for Lucas" in the Hong Kong/Singapore movie Turn Left, Turn Right.

Tan Seng Giaw

His multi-cultural academic and social background has resulted in Seng Giaw being fluent in Mandarin, English, Bahasa Malaysia, and competent in the writing of Malay in the Jawi script.

The Queen's School, Chester

The Queen's School is the only independent school in the north of England to be recognised and designated "Advanced Confucius Classroom" status by Hanban for excellence in teaching Mandarin Chinese.

Ts'ao Yung-ho

Ts'ao has studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he can now make use of ten languages: Taiwanese, Japanese, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.

Wong Tai Sin

According to the text Self-Description of Chisongzi (赤松子自述; "Master Red Pine") kept at the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong, Wong Tai Sin was born Wong Cho Ping (Huang Chuping in Mandarin pinyin) in 338 in Lanxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang province.

Xuzhou dialect

Xuzhou dialect claims a rich vocabulary of unique terms, and also has important tonal differences from Mandarin.


see also

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale

It publishes articles in English, French and Mandarin Chinese, and covers a wide range of topics including Generative syntax, Linguistic typologyPhonetics, Phonology and Historical linguistics on all languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic families, as well as on Japanese, Korean and Ainu.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

A Mandarin Chinese version debuted in Beijing, China, on June 20, 2007, and it had been also reproduced by LANCreators, Taiwan's only group producing Broadway musicals, and performed, in English, at the Crown Theatre, Taipei, from November 3, 2007.

Irene Saunders

The Right Word in Chinese is a dictionary that is the first of its kind with Pinyin romanization of the Putonghua language or Modern-day Standard Mandarin Chinese published in 1985.

Mike Frerichs

He then attended National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan where he studied Mandarin Chinese while teaching English courses.

Parfums d’extrêmes

The double album is granted by Chinese medias and the French medias specialized on China as the first album written and sung in mandarin Chinese by a French man and distributed all around China.

Patty Hou

She participated in the dubbing of the film "Flushed Away" (Taiwan Chinese version), Patty has been dubbed the voice of the character of Rita into Mandarin Chinese.

Sha Wujing

He is also known as 沙僧 "Monk Sha", "Shā Sēng" in Mandarin Chinese, Sa Tăng in Sino-Vietnamese and Sua Cheng in Thai .

Sophie Zelmani

Zelmani's "Going Home" from Sing and Dance was covered in Mandarin Chinese as "Passenger" by Faye Wong on To Love.

The Schools Network

In 2006 the trust established the world’s first school-based Confucius Institute, in partnership with the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) The SSAT Confucius Institute now has a network of 34 Confucius Classrooms in schools, specialising in the teaching of Mandarin Chinese.

Wenz

Latinxua Sin Wenz, a little-used romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.