Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in China, serving as the official language of the country.
普通话是中国使用最广泛的语言，是该国的官方语言。
Learning
Mandarin can be challenging due to its complex tonal system, but it's highly rewarding for those interested in Chinese culture or business.
学习普通话因其复杂的声调系统而具有挑战性，但对于对中国文化或商务感兴趣的人来说，收获颇丰。
The
Mandarin speaking ability of our new employee will be a great asset for our company's expansion into the Chinese market.
我们新员工的普通话能力对我们公司进军中国市场将是一大优势。
I enrolled in a
Mandarin course at the local community college to improve my communication skills when traveling to China.
我在本地社区大学注册了一门普通话课程，以提高我去中国旅行时的沟通能力。
Many Chinese parents prefer to speak
Mandarin with their children rather than their regional dialects, to ensure better educational and professional opportunities.
许多中国父母倾向于与孩子说普通话而非方言，以确保他们有更好的教育和职业机会。
The film was dubbed into
Mandarin for release in mainland China, attracting a massive audience.
该电影被配音成普通话以便在中国大陆上映，吸引了大量观众。
The
Mandarin duck, known for its striking plumage, is considered a symbol of love and fidelity in Chinese culture.
以鲜艳羽毛著称的鸳鸯，在中国文化中被视为爱情与忠诚的象征。
To effectively communicate with our Chinese partners, we hired a translator proficient in both English and
Mandarin.
为了有效地与我们的中国合作伙伴沟通，我们聘请了一位精通英语和普通话的翻译。
My
Mandarin teacher always emphasizes the importance of practicing pronunciation daily to master the four distinct tones.
我的普通话老师总是强调每天练习发音以掌握四个不同声调的重要性。
After years of studying
Mandarin, I finally felt confident enough to hold a conversation with native speakers during my trip to Beijing.
经过多年学习普通话，我终于有信心在去北京旅行时与母语者进行交谈。
The company has hired 100 mainland flight attendants this year for the first time, in an aim to diversify its cabin crew members with the ability to speak mandarin, with more than 2,000 candidates filing applications.
该公司今年首次雇佣了100名大陆空乘人员，旨在使其客舱乘务员多样化，使其能够说普通话，有2000多名候选人提出申请。
Seeing the rising interest among the youth toward Cantonese, Duolingo launched its first dialect course — Cantonese for Mandarin speakers — in 2022.
看到年轻人对广东话越来越感兴趣，Duolingo于2022年推出了第一门方言课程——面向普通话使用者的广东话。
Hunyuan, with a strong Mandarin comprehension and creation capabilities, has already been integrated into the company's various business lines such as WeChat, cloud, advertising, gaming, financial technology, online conferences and documents, Tong said at Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit on Thursday.
童在周四举行的腾讯全球数字生态峰会上表示，浑源拥有强大的普通话理解和创作能力，已经融入了公司的各种业务线，如微信、云、广告、游戏、金融科技、在线会议和文档。
To better serve Chinese firms, it has created a Mandarin version of its website, opened a China Service Centre with Mandarin onboarding support in Dubai, and established an office in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
为了更好地为中国企业服务，该公司创建了中文版网站，在迪拜开设了一个提供中文入职支持的中国服务中心，并在广东省深圳市设立了办事处。
Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a string of special events and new initiatives lined up throughout 2023.
香港文华东方酒店将于2023年举办一系列特别活动和新举措，庆祝其成立60周年。
The yearlong celebrations commenced during Chinese New Year with the unveiling of The Mandarin at 60 Exhibit, which is a permanent historical archive located in the hotel's East Lobby for public viewing.
为期一年的庆祝活动在中国新年期间开始，60岁的普通话展览揭幕，这是一个位于酒店东大堂的永久历史档案馆，供公众观看。
There is no better time to rediscover or revisit your favorite city, and we very much await the return of our guests from all around the world to be a part of our milestone celebration all year around," said Amanda Hyndman, general manager of Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong and area vice-president of operations at Mandarin Oriental.
香港文华东方酒店总经理兼文华东方区域运营副总裁Amanda Hyndman表示：“现在是重新发现或重新游览您最喜欢的城市的最佳时机，我们非常期待来自世界各地的客人回来，成为我们全年里程碑式庆祝活动的一部分。
In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong has launched an exclusive two-night consecutive stay special offer in the club room or suite categories.
为庆祝其成立60周年，香港文华东方酒店推出了俱乐部客房或套房类别的连续两晚专享特别优惠。
Honoring the hotel's Chinese heritage and original design, the Mandarin Spa will be launching new brand partnerships and bespoke treatments by 111SKIN and Oskia.
为了尊重酒店的中国传统和原创设计，文华水疗中心将推出111SKIN和Oskia的新品牌合作伙伴关系和定制护理。
Mandarin Grill + Bar has been long renowned as Hong Kong's favorite dining room and has retained its Michelin star since 2009.
文华烧烤+酒吧长期以来一直被誉为香港最受欢迎的餐厅，自2009年以来一直保持米其林星级。
The three chefs — Antonio Guida from Mandarin Oriental Milan restaurant Seta, Alain Roux from Mandarin Oriental Bangkok restaurant Le Normandie, and Deiniol Pritchard from Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal — were invited to present their exceptional dishes during May, July and September respectively.
三位厨师——米兰文华东方餐厅Seta的Antonio Guida、曼谷文华东方酒店Le Normandie的Alain Roux和伦敦海德公园文华东方餐馆Dinner by Heston Blumenthal的Deiniol Pritchard——分别受邀在5月、7月和9月展示了他们的特色菜肴。
Originally designed by a veteran Hong Kong designer, Alan Chan, the iconic print of Mandarin Oriental teahouse has been synonymous with the unique packaging of the Mandarin Oriental Cake Shop since 2006.
文华东方茶楼的标志性印刷品最初由香港资深设计师AlanChan设计，自2006年以来一直是文华东方蛋糕店独特包装的代名词。
The new clinic provides medical service in Mandarin, English, Korean and Japanese.
这家新诊所提供普通话、英语、韩语和日语医疗服务。
Supported by its training facilities, they have been able to provide surgeons in the region with training conducted in Mandarin, and simulated operations using the Mako Robotic-arm assisted surgery.
依靠其培训设施，他们已经能够为该地区内的外科医生提供用普通话进行的培训，以及使用Mako机器人臂辅助手术进行的模拟操作培训。
The CEO of the Japanese multinational corporation's regional branch, which specializes in businesses including smart life appliances, cold chain, and building and housing solutions, is a rare breed of multinational executive as he also speaks Mandarin.
"We are also expanding our business to Mandarin teaching since this September, where we want to help children learn pinyin and furthermore to nurture their ability of reading comprehension," Luo said.
Lingo Bus, the online Mandarin subsidiary of China's largest online education startup VIPKID, announced a strategic partnership with a leading publication firm on Thursday to boost content for new growth amid the rising demand of learning Chinese abroad.
Through an alliance with Language & Culture Press, the country's leading professional Mandarin learning and teaching publication companies, the online Mandarin teaching platform said that it aims to integrate high-quality resources, including content and technology and as an expert in global Mandarin education.
"The combination of technology and content will be a critical driver in promoting Mandarin learning across the world," said Hao Sirong, head of global business development at Oxford University Press.
Liu Jun, VIPKID's chief academic officer and also a former TESOL chairman, said "It has been decades sinces Mandarin has been promoted across the globe but it is the entry of technology that will innovate and drive the sector to a new high.
With the strong technology strength of its parent company, foreign students can have a 100 percent immersive learning experience to gain maximum exposure to Mandarin Chinese.
The system it created for the tonal Mandarin Chinese language has served more Chinese users.
In 1979, he first came to China to study Mandarin.
"The opening of Mandarin Oriental Wangfujing in Beijing gave the final touch on WF CENTRAL, making it a commercial complex covering lifestyle retail, entertainment and relaxation.
She vowed to leverage her proficiency in Mandarin to promote friendship between Kenyan and Chinese nationals in the coming years.
Since July, the park has introduced a mini program that offers introductions to facilities in Mandarin Chinese, provides special entrance offers and supports mobile payments settled in renminbi.
Multilingual candidates who are proficient in Cantonese, Mandarin and English are highly coveted by employers, according to the Hays report.
In some remote areas, teaching resources are not sufficient for learning Mandarin or English, and our product could be of assistance to local teachers,” Lyu says.
The system we have created and tailored for the tonal Mandarin Chinese language is serving more and more Chinese users.
Park learned Mandarin Chinese early on in his career to build friendship with his Chinese partners while conducting business.
In addition to a 25-minute one-on-one online class, students will also have to review videos and other materials to gain the maximum exposure to Mandarin Chinese.
Wu passionately embraced her new profession, working out during her spare time to prevent airsickness as well as learning English and Putonghua, or standard Mandarin, to better communicate with her colleagues and passengers.
By having staff and offices in both countries who are fluent in English and Mandarin as well as in other local languages, Foster said EastWest can provide the strategy, tools, and expertise to do business in a country with a population of 1.4 billion.
"I can say that when I was serving as the president (from 2015 to 2017), I had a mere two hours or less to manage my own company every day," said Ngu, speaking in fluent Mandarin, though with a trace of Minnan accent, similar to those from Fujian province.
Fosun came to New York for sustainable development, therefore it did everything in accordance with the highest standards and in respect of the local culture, laws and regulations, Bo Wei, Fosun's chief deputy in NYC, told Mandarin daily newspaper The China Press recently.
The perils of getting the tone wrong in a Mandarin conversation are well known; the pinyin word ma, for example, can be translated as horse, cursing, or mom, or it can be used as a suffix to indicate a question has been asked, all depending on the way it is pronounced.
Matthew Rice, after being similarly misunderstood while trying to hold a conversation, has developed a tool that he hopes will help non-native speakers get to grips with Mandarin’s tones and accents.
For Mandarin learners, achieving accurate tonal variation and accents can be a great challenge compounded by the fact that people often struggle to hear their own mistakes, so they go uncorrected.
As an old Chinese hand who has studied Mandarin for more than 25 years, Dubow has forged close ties with China throughout his career.
British Airways said it also offers services that cater to Chinese customers, including members of its cabin crew and customer relations team who speak Mandarin and Cantonese.
"Expanding our overseas business will be a major task in the coming year, especially promoting our Mandarin platform Lingo Bus to the countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative," said Mi Wenjuan, founder and CEO of VIPKID, during an interview at the 4th World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.
A Chinese female singer will perform seven songs in Mandarin dedicated to the area, among other elements that aim to bring guests an experience that is "authentically Disney and distinctly Chinese", he added.
Luxury hotel brand Mandarin Oriental, which will open in the second half of 2018, will occupy the fifth and sixth floors.
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Chapman, who is fluent in Mandarin and conducts joint venture board meetings in rooms filled with high-powered Chinese businessmen, is all compliments about how the Chinese do business.
They must also have extensive driving experience and speak fluent mandarin, the company stated.
I'm trying to be a bridge," the 30-year-old Pakistani said in fluent Mandarin at his office in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province.
From his side, he displayed passion, trustworthiness and fluent Mandarin skills.
Online education startup VIPKID launched its new business in one-on-one teaching of Mandarin to children overseas in Beijing on Wednesday.
"A lot of parents overseas want their children to learn Mandarin but don't know where to find high-quality teachers," he said.
"Born in Sydney, Chow traveled to Shanghai in 1993 to learn Mandarin at Fudan University.
He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Swedish, and holds a degree in engineering from Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and a PhD in engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
他精通英语、普通话和瑞典语，并且拥有上海交通大学的工程学学位以及瑞典斯德哥尔摩皇家理工学院的工程学博士学位。
The Chinese side assigned Mi Zhiyin, a chief engineer, to serve as Swandaru's technical instructor, while managerial staffer Zhao Wei volunteered to teach him Mandarin.
"Spicy Chinese food began to appear in Myanmar 10 years ago," said Sean Yann, 37, a Chinese-Myanmar manufacturer of the spicy hotpot flavoring, in fluent Mandarin.
"Spicy Chinese food began to appear in Myanmar 10 years ago," said Sean Yann, 37, a Chinese-Myanmar manufacturer of the spicy hotpot flavoring who is fluent in Mandarin.
Two-way fruit shipments see blossoming growth on sea routeNANNING — Cargo ships carrying 18 tons of Orah mandarin oranges departed from Qinzhou Port, a part of Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in late March, marking the very first batch of the sweet fruit exported via this sea route.
Given that they were my biggest customers, I started learning Mandarin to better communicate with them," he said.
HANGZHOU－Poland's Leon Meredyk spoke in fluent Mandarin as he introduced dairy products from his country at the second China-CEEC Expo& International Consumer Goods Fair in Ningbo, Zhejiang province.
It has also doubled the quota for Chinese Mandarin teachers and Chinese tour guides working in the country to 300 and 200, respectively.
In recent months, Tamdrin, whose name in Mandarin is Ding Zhen, a 20-year-old from the Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, has gone viral on the internet for his good looks.
"The seafood trade between Norway and China has a long history, with Shanghai always playing a central role," said Thorud, who has lived in Shanghai for 18 years, and speaks fluent Mandarin and has a Chinese name "Tong Anrui. "
This has promoted the development of many agricultural and sideline industries in counties and county-level cities of Quanzhou, such as Tieguanyin oolong tea from Anxi, seaweed from Jinjiang and mandarin oranges from Yongchun, said the Quanzhou branch of Fujian Rural Credit Union.
Tourism Fiji will promote Fiji in Mandarin and Cantonese on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.
Its Mandarin courses were also boosted from 400 to over 800 while the consumption of courses soared three times over the past six months, Qiu disclosed.
In the Pakistan Pavilion, Aqeel Ahmed Chaudhry, head of WINZA, a Pakistani jewelry brand, has been speaking fluent Mandarin while introducing his jewelry to Chinese and foreign customers during the six-day event.
Rising demand to learn Chinese overseas is bringing opportunities and opening the door for Giant-Whale Future Technology Co Ltd, an emerging Chinese startup that offers online Mandarin learning.
海外学习汉语的需求不断增长，为新兴中国创业公司巨鲸未来科技有限公司带来了机遇，该公司专注于提供在线普通话教学服务。
The Chengdu, Sichuan province-based Giant-Whale Future Technology, which was founded in 2020, mainly offers online Mandarin tutoring to overseas Chinese in small classes.
成立于2020年的“鲸未来科技”公司总部位于四川省成都市，其主营业务为向海外华人提供小班化的在线普通话教学。
"We find ourselves well positioned to be able to deliver online learning of Mandarin for young learners.
我们发现自己处于有利位置，能够为幼儿提供在线汉语学习服务。
Hugh Yao, founder and CEO of LingoAce, an online Mandarin Chinese-teaching platform, said: "As a Singaporean company, we have actually enjoyed a large pool of talent amid the booming development of China's online education sector.
LingoAce在线汉语教学平台创始人兼首席执行官Hugh Yao表示：“作为一家新加坡公司，我们实际上在中国在线教育行业蓬勃发展之际，已经受益于大量的人才储备。”
Despite rising geopolitical tensions, Yao said that he felt more and more foreigners have begun seeing taking Mandarin lessons as a must.
尽管地缘政治紧张局势不断升级，姚表示，他感觉越来越多的外国人开始视学习普通话为必修课。
"We find ourselves well positioned to be able to deliver online learning of Mandarin for young learners," Yao said.
“我们发现自己非常有优势，能够为年轻学习者提供在线汉语学习，”姚说。
Garze's popularity was boosted by Tamdrin, whose name in Mandarin is Ding Zhen, a 20-year-old from the Tibetan ethnic group in Sichuan.
Garze的知名度得到了提升，这要归功于丁真，这位20岁的藏族小伙在四川长大，他的名字在普通话中是Ding Zhen。
"It just costs me 23 yuan on average per month, and I can listen to many Mandarin, Cantonese and English songs from my favorite singers such as Mayday, Jay Chou, Stefanie Sun and Eason Chan," said Zhao, adding that she usually spends about an hour on the platforms each day.
赵小姐说：“平均每个月只需花费我23元，我就可以在平台上听到很多来自我喜爱的歌手，如五月天、周杰伦、孙燕姿和陈奕迅的普通话、粤语和英语歌曲。”她还补充道，自己通常每天会花大约一个小时在这些平台上。
Five minutes before the start of a mandarin class at Xueersi Online School, a teacher named Qiangqiang joined the students attending the class so they can familiarize themselves with the classroom's rules, and quickly preview the main content of the course to them.
在学而思网校的一节普通话课开始前五分钟，一位名叫强强的老师加入了听课的学生，以便他们能熟悉课堂规则，并快速预览课程的主要内容。
GROOVE Turntables spin as format witnesses revivalSince launching his debut album Jay in 2000, Mandarin pop star Jay Chou has built a massive fan base in Asia.
To immerse students in Chinese traditions, the school teaches Mandarin and participates in celebrations of local culture, according to Richardson.
While fully embracing the use of WeChat, a popular Chinese social media platform, as a tool to communicate with potential Chinese visitors, the tourism board has also launched a website in Mandarin and has recently started a new tourism campaign designed to attract Chinese tourists.
The recent launch of the DMCC's Mandarin website and Chinese language service has also been hugely impactful, and the DMCC expects to attract even more companies from China in 2019, she added.
"The airport has added Mandarin to all its vocal announcements and deployed employees well-versed with Chinese culture and traditions to better serve the Chinese passengers," Nikonov said.
"Mandarin is more widely spoken in Hong Kong these days, and some Chinese mainland funds have flowed through Hong Kong so it's an easy place to put funds to work in a holding pattern while considering other global opportunities.
According to Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of AWS, the institute will conduct multi-language natural language processing research centered on Mandarin Chinese and provide an open-source, deep-learning ecosystem to help Chinese customers launch AI and machine learning applications, Xinhua reported.
"As most of us speak the local dialect here, people think we are pretentious speaking in Mandarin when shooting the videos," Zhang said.
The large model, dubbed as Zi Yue or "Confucius said" in mandarin, can be applied to various application scenarios such as translation, virtual voice tutoring, essay guidance, grammar analysis and smart documentation.
It is capable of voice command in Mandarin, Cantonese, English and China's Sichuan dialect.
The natural language understanding mode has an intelligent voice assistant which recognizes Mandarin and Cantonese, as well as English.
The German company established a research and development center in China and launched a Mandarin version of Linux.
Mandarin pop star Jay Chou's fashion brand Phantaci, and Ezeka decentralized entertainment platform－jointly released a digital avatar called "Phanta Bears" on New Year's Day and sold 10,000 copies in less than 40 minutes, bringing in a total value of 62 million yuan ($9.7 million).
In October 2014, he held a 30-minute question-and-answer session entirely in Mandarin at Tsinghua University in Beijing, when he had joined the school's advisory board.
Last year, the park introduced a mini program that offers introductions to facilities in Mandarin Chinese, provides special entrance offers and supports mobile payments settled in renminbi.
Due to the rising interest by Chinese firms and businesses in the DIFC, Kazim also released the 2017 annual review in Chinese Mandarin, a first in the history of the 2014-founded financial centre.
Up to now, Fano Labs could handle Cantonese, Sichuanese, English and Mandarin, and has clients including property developers, utility companies and telecommunication companies.