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Most Chinese could only speak one local dialect before 1949 when New China was founded. More and more people are 'bilingual' nowadays, as they can speak both Mandarin and a dialect or a language of an ethnic minority.

Chen Zhangtai
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Right now, we should all be learning Mandarin. We are going to be so impacted by the growth of China and India.

Alan Dean Foster
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I have also agreed to join the first Mandarin Chinese class... I think it is the best way for me to show the pupils how important I regard this new addition to our core curricula.

Richard Cairns
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We have to think carefully about which languages those are. French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.

David Graddol
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It (the promotion of Mandarin) aims to ensure national cohesion and facilitate communication for people from different regions.

Chen Zhangtai
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Employers tend to find foreign educated, Mandarin speaking graduates attractive.

David Arkless
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Americans are way behind in studying Mandarin Chinese. The language is so hard that many students give up.

Ben Lawson
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How sad it will be if in three or four centuries all that is spoken in the world is English, Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese and a handful of European languages, ... We will also lose much healing knowledge and much conservation knowledge embedded in indigenous cultures.

Paul Cox
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Honduran cooks learn Mandarin. Mexican clerks learn Korean. Most often, people learn Spanish.

David Graddol
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Mandarin has to be used as the main language, especially at school.

Zhang Shiping
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