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He understands French and English, but prefers Mandarin, spoken in whispers to his interpreter.
Learning aids, like textbooks or supertitles to help keep us focused, are absent: only Mandarin spoken here.
The local people, called Cantonese, speak the Cantonese language (Yueyu), which is distinctly different from the Mandarin spoken by most Chinese.
Mandarin – spoken in economic hotspots like Beijing, Shenzhen and Singapore – is fast replacing Hong Kong's Cantonese and parents are desperate for nannies who can teach their children the language.
The official language of the Chinese mainland is Mandarin (spoken by more than a billion), and even in Cantonese-dominant Hong Kong nowadays people are scrambling to learn Mandarin as business with the mainland increases.
This doesn't include the many "minority" languages of the 75m non-ethnic Chinese.The difference between the Mandarin spoken by a Sichuan farmer and by one in Shandong province may lead to the same confusion an American from the deep south might experience in talking to a Cockney.
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For instance, in his work with Mandarin speaking students at Taiwan, he uses English to foster critique.
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