That could mean publishing restaurant reviews in Mandarin or finding new platforms for distribution.
Hotel management makes regular recruitment trips to China, and all staff are encouraged to learn Mandarin.
At first this meant providing customer service on the phone in Mandarin or Cantonese.
The cash-strapped BBC recently ended its World Service Mandarin-language short-wave broadcasts after 70 years.
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It's not uncommon for students to take a politics class in Mandarin or history in Arabic.
As the playdate progressed, Happy Rogers was asked to name the hardest thing about learning Mandarin.
In a generation they have been weaned off chewing-gum, learnt Mandarin and become models of courtesy.
As more mandarin orchards went up, more bees started to carry pollen where it wasn't welcome.
Her sister, Bee, 4, attends Nanyang Kindergarten, where instruction is completely in Mandarin for two years.
Mandarin is also the only chain with a 5-Star in tourist mad Las Vegas.
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It may take little more than a web connection and a little Mandarin fluency.
These youngsters from Brazzaville or Capetown are awarded scholarships to learn Mandarin and attend Chinese schools.
To a person, they blew me away in tests, and their oral Mandarin was nearly perfect.
When a local Cantonese speaker objected to the noodle-eating in bad Mandarin, a quarrel erupted.
Sorvino is a Mandarin-speaking Harvard University graduate who spent a college year abroad in Beijing.
So should someone with good linguistic ability who studies Mandarin in China full-time for three years.
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Consider the opening of the suite from Bartok's 1926 ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin (audio).
Liu, who speaks Mandarin and served as an interpreter, wasn't there for the first month.
Third, the novice's chief credentials were that he had been a mandarin in the construction ministry.
We met in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, on the thirty-fifth floor of the Time Warner Center.
Now demand is strong enough that specialists are considering whether Mandarin teachers need a fast-track credential process.
Zuckerberg has visited China a couple of times, met with Internet execs there, and is learning Mandarin.
Try the smoked fish starter and stewed pork in soy sauce or the sweetand- sour Mandarin fish.
The Mandarin and English subtitles do their best to keep up, but never deliver the same punch.
Mandarin Oriental, New York has unobstructed panoramas of Central Park, Midtown Manhattan and the Hudson River.
Besides, flavors like green tea, ice cream, mango and mandarin orange are also present in the country.
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For this reason, Britons at home never need to use Mandarin in their dealings with Chinese firms.
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For drinks with a view, try the Mandarin Hotel at Columbus Circle for a spectacular panorama overlooking Central Park.
She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Stanford University, and studied advanced Mandarin Chinese at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
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Mr. Distefano's own son is studying Mandarin in high school, with an eye towards possibly working in Asia.
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