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Mandarin And The Trade-Off World

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INTRODUCTION Meaning of Mandarin is the standard literary and official from of Chinese, spoken by over 730 million people or an official in any of the nine top grades of the former imperial Chinese civil service (mandarin1, n.d.). Mandarin also is the official languages of mainland China (since 1982), ROC Taiwan (since 1932), one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of eight official language of the United Nations (UN) (Chinese, 2014). The status of Mandarin is increasing because of China is starting to replace the status of the United States (US) from aspect of economy, politic and military. Therefore, Mandarin has already become a language in ranking top ten useful and most important language in the world (Languages, 2014). Mandarin also plays an important role in the trade-off world because of China is second biggest economic power in the world …show more content…

In other hand, the benefits of learning Mandarin not only for future business opportunities, but also for career in both private and government sectors, understanding Chinese culture and speaking Chinese may take more brain power

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