But the show also tackled sentimental myths about the second world war, the ludicrous anti-nuclear precautions proffered by Civil Defence, mandarin Third Programme voices, hubristic union barons, racist landladies and arrogant third world despots.
The word "you" on it's own is pronounced with the sharp tone the "ho" is pronounced with (as in a Mandarin fourth tone); when put in front of another word, it changes to the flat, high one.
The Republican establishment is as fragmented as the rest of the American elite, and the Party's mandarins first spent a hundred and twenty million dollars backing Jeb Bush's Presidential bid, watched the despised Ted Cruz hire the cutting-edge voter-identification shops, and spread their endorsements around, so muddying the situation that there has been no clear "establishment" candidate at all.
Table 3 Distribution of acquisition order of Min and Mandarin Simultaneous Sequential Total Min-first Mandarin-first Male 5 3 2 10 Female 5 2 0 7 Total 10 5 2 10.
The Broadway version of "The Lion King" will be performed entirely in Mandarin — a first.
And the Chinese hot line offered information only in Mandarin at first, although elderly Chinese immigrants, who are less likely to be proficient in English, speak Cantonese.
When Rick Rashid, the firm's chief research officer, spoke in English at a conference in Tianjin in October, his peroration was translated live into Mandarin, appearing first as subtitles on overhead video screens, and then as a computer-generated voice.
Mandarin's first resort outside Asia offers a lower-key alternative to the bells and whistles down the road.
For example, in Standard Mandarin, the first of these phrases would be yī rén, where yī means "one", rén means "person", and ge is the required classifier.
So do my wife and I: It's affordable, it's on our way to work and it teaches Mandarin, her second language.
