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...Mandarin has made work life a lot easier. The most recent meeting I had in Hong Kong, I was able to use it to great effect. The majority of the attendees were Chinese, and the fact that I offered Mandarin as a secondary option for them to explain themselves and explain their ideas made the meeting go a lot smoother, and enabled everyone to be a lot more comfortable during...

...Mandarin Chinese, ma pronounced in a high tone means mother, while if it is pronounced in a circumflex tone (high-low-high) it means horse. These are examples of tone languages. Pitch in Spanish and English does not differentiate word meanings, it is employed to convey discourse-related meanings. That is, different pitch contours specify different types of utterances...

...Mandarin Chinese and who is studying Archaeology. Activity 3 Listening to three students’ views Timing: Allow about 15 minutes VERENA DILL At the moment, I’m using corpora to analyse self-references. So, how to use them. For example, I use the word ‘we’ and looked at the hits. In my corpora, in my field, I have more than 2,000 hits, so it’s a word that is...