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língua mandarim The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China.
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пекинский диалект Portuguese
dialeto de pequim Spanish
dialecto pekines Catalan
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Objective: To develop 22 Chinese Mandarin monosyllable lists with good psychometrical equivalence.
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They were gaining weight, growing taller and quickly learning Mandarin, it crowed.
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A growing number of private institutions are rolling out Mandarin options, too.
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After English, the most common languages are Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese and Vietnamese.
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Sally Round investigates the push for more Mandarin speakers in New Zealand.
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Or, perhaps he was just overstressing his tones, in speaking Mandarin Chinese.
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Reductions in 2011 ended services in Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian and Mandarin Chinese.
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Kyung-Hee was studying Mandarin Chinese and sometimes read words and sentences out loud.
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English, Thai, French, Mandarin Chinese, accounting, political protocol, catering and hospitality.
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Announcements about the investigation have been broadcast in both Mandarin Chinese and English.
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Mr. Kuo said he was of the Mandarin dialect.
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We spoke the mandarin dialect with perfect fluency.
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"A great people of the West, most honorable sir," he replied in the pure mandarin dialect, "claim credit for having said that 'business is business.'
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More likely a Shanghainer who speaks the Beijing dialect a lot.
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Mandarin Chinese includes a multitude of dialects, such as Standard Chinese, which is the official state language of the Chinese government, and the Beijing dialect.
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