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For the company, shut your dialect mouths!
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
YWEEKEND | People in offices who speak loudly in dialect may feel they are very cool and very fashionable, but other uncomprehending people see them as very backward. Recently, a small, privately held enterprise in Wuhan issued a “prohibition...
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Simon Winchester masters Mandarin tones
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Simon Winchester, author of "The Man Who Loved China," is filmed giving a jaunty tour through Mandarin's four tones.
"If 867.2 million people can speak it, you'd think that I could learn it too."
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