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Then, rich Britons with an eye on the future did not splash out on Chinese nannies so that their offspring might learn Mandarin.

后来，着眼与未来的富裕的英国人，不再为了他们的后代学习普通话，把大量的金钱挥霍到中国保姆身上。

"I'd like it to be next month, but it depends on how fast we develop the market here, " he tells me through a Mandarin interpreter.

“我也想下个月就开始，但它取决于我们在这里开拓市场的速度，”他通过普通话翻译跟我说。

Any native or foreigner with at least a high school diploma and a sincere interest in learning Mandarin is welcome to classes at the CLC.

具有中学以上教育程度，对华语学习有兴趣之外籍或本国人士。

But on their buying trips, Ms. Bradford said, "Peter did my negotiating in Mandarin, which saved me a great deal of money. "

谈到他们的购物过程，布拉德福特女生说：“彼德用普通话讨价还价，帮我省了一大笔钱。”

Or watching a film in Mandarin Chinese two-channel, which you wish to shield a channel just to Mandarin, do not know how to do?

或者看电影时有国语粤语两个声道，你想屏蔽其中一个声道，只听国语，不知该怎么办？

The amount of Mandarin Chinese you hear while walking the docks gives you a pretty good clue to what's driving the boat industry in Asia.

走在甲板上满耳听到的普通话清楚地显示出推动亚洲游艇业发展的动力何在。

One of the members of our party was a native of Chengdu, and of the five Americans, everyone but Hugh and I spoke Mandarin.

咱们成员中有位成都本地人，五位美国人，他们都说普通话，就我和修两个人不会。

My first friends were all English majors, happy to help me with Mandarin and shopping while practicing their English.

我最初的朋友都是英语专业的学生，他们都乐意帮我学习中文、和我一起逛街练习他们的英语。

I miss being able to switch around Mandarin, English and Singlish, you know.

我怀念可以切换左右普通话，英语和新加坡式英语，你知道。

It has never been a better time to be able to read Mandarin and a financial statement.

看来学中文和研究财务报告是没有时间了。

Three months later, I telephoned him, in Mandarin of course, and he could not believe that it was me.

3个月后，我给他打了电话，说的当然是中文，而他无法相信是我打的电话。

He was but a stranger to me. He only spoke Mandarin- a language that I was only able to converse at a very simple level.

他对我而言不过是个陌生人，他只说中文（一种我只能用很简单的程度交谈的语言）。

Locke, who would be the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing, does not speak Mandarin, only a few words of Taishanese.

如果获批，骆家辉将成为美国首位华裔驻华大使。骆家辉不会说普通话，只会讲几句广东台山话。

Mandarin and English-speaking Chinese Singaporeans seem to be living in two different worlds.

在新加坡，讲华语和讲英语的华人似乎生活在两个不同的世界里。

For positions that do not involve teaching English, near fluency in Mandarin is no longer an added bonus, but a prerequisite.

对不是教英语的岗位而言，比较流利的普通话已经不再是额外的加分点，而是先决条件了。

I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

华语音乐还是有很大的潜在发展，还有很多值得突破的地方。

"With Spanish and Mandarin and English, he should be able to do just about anything he wants, " she said.

她说：“如果能掌握西班牙语、汉语及英语，他就应该能做任何想做的事情。”

"He later turned the tape over to a linguist who confirmed that she was speaking in Mandarin, a Chinese dialect, " reveals Dr. Helzinsky.

透露：「他后来将录音带交给一位语言学者，而学者证实她说的是北京话（国语）--中国的方言。」

One teacher said she never speaks English in front of her children, so that they get used to only hearing Mandarin from her.

一位老师表示，为了辅助教学，她从来不在孩子面前说英语，他们因此习惯了只听她说普通话。

While it's common to hear a mishmash of foreign languages among the Japanese voices, Mandarin has lately become a growing part of the mix.

在一片日语声中听到一些外国话的大杂烩，是很寻常的事，最近普通话的声音有不断增长之势。