Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident
Chinese language speakers.
Not exact matches
The U.S. - based smart
speaker providers are not currently offering
Chinese -
language support for their voice assistants so this deal was destined to go to a
Chinese company.
48 were highly proficient English -
Chinese bilingual, who had learned English before the age of 10 and switch between
languages on a daily basis, and 51 were English monolingual
speakers.
He points also to brain - imaging research that shows native
speakers of
Chinese and native
speakers of English process the same Arabic numerals in different parts of their brains, suggesting that
language and culture influence even which neurons are recruited to deal with numbers.
Today,
Chinese (Mandarin) is the most widely spoken
language in the world, with about 850 million native
speakers (and about total
speakers worldwide).
Though U.S. audiences likely weren't able to appreciate the movie on the same level as native
Chinese speakers because of the way that the film plays around with the
language, it's still an amusing and wildly madcap spaghetti western that's anchored by a trio of fantastic performances by director / star Wen, Chow Yun - Fat and Ge You, who have such great comedic timing between them that the subtitles often move too quickly to read.
The trailers have played off the title, though the film itself is more similar to The Hangover, so we're playing up those elements in all our usual marketing aimed at first -
language Chinese speakers.
Yes, we knew they were exporting
Chinese teachers to teach Mandarin (and who knows what else) in our schools while importing native English
speakers to instruct their children in our
language.
Vicky Gough, Schools Adviser at the British Council said: «With more than one billion Mandarin
Chinese speakers in the world, it is vital that more of our young people learn this valuable
language in order to give them the advantage they need to live in a global society and compete in a global economy.
The school saw an exodus of native
Chinese speakers from the program that resulted in a loss of $ 200,000 in funding for the dual
language program, parents said they were told.
It is simple mathematics: The Spanish
language is spoken by more than 400 million people;
Chinese is spoken by more than 1 billion people worldwide; also, Arabic is spoken by more than 250 million people, not to mention Hindi, Russian, German, Japanese, or Bengali, all of which count tens of millions of
speakers.
Forty percent are native Spanish
speakers; 40 percent are
Chinese speakers, and 20 percent speak a diverse array of other
languages.
Look at some of the features you get in this app: * Adorable graphics and easy to use interface * Multilingual
language learning tool for native English speaking users * Formatted in a proven most effective way to learn and practice a second
language * Each paragraph of story is presented in English with Spanish or
Chinese subtitles * Optional voice read along with text by native Spanish or
Chinese speaker * Automatic or manual page turn with gesture support * Music by well known songwriter, NienShen Ma * Facebook Connect * Sync with Q.L.L. (Quick
Language Learning) website * More than half a million users have downloaded the
language learning picture books already!
With non-English
speakers in substantial numbers throughout the US (the New York Public Library told us earlier this week that the biggest
languages for them in NY are Spanish, Russian, and
Chinese!)
HelloTalk, the 1st global
language and culture exchange community, connects you with native
speakers of other
languages (English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Mandarin
Chinese, Cantonese, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, and 100 more), for FREE!
You might say something in English, but when you refract it through the prism, a
Chinese speaker might pick up on phonemes that signal something else, which in turn differs from what
speakers of Arabic, Polish, Spanish, or any other
language might be able make out from the original utterance.
Given my background as a Mandarin
Chinese speaker it was the perfect opportunity for me to gain work experience in my second
language.
However, the voice assistant was recently included in a
Chinese language smart
speaker and new integrations like the one with IFTTT are definitely steps in the right direction.
The outlet also learned from a
Chinese language report that Amazon has already received its supply of Echo Spot and Echo Show
speakers for the holiday season.
The U.S. - based smart
speaker providers are not currently offering
Chinese -
language support for their voice assistants so this deal was destined to go to a
Chinese company.
One of the downsides to NEO, however, is that it is a primarily
Chinese - based platform, making it difficult for English
speakers and those who speak other
languages to understand the platform fully.
To help all NAR members connect with clients and provide non-English
speakers information about U.S. real estate in their native
language, realtor.org debuted a new tool that translates site content into 11 additional
languages:
Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.