This spoken form can be difficult to understand for a standard Mandarin speaker or even Mandarin speakers from the other side of the city.

Mandarin Chinese is taught, from Year 3, by a native Mandarin speaker.

Half of the instruction is in Mandarin Chinese, provided by teachers who are native Mandarin speakers.

Learning Classical or Modern Chinese by native Mandarin speakers.

Replacing Chinese characters to bring functional literacy to illiterate native Mandarin speakers.

Instead, the company hired a team of Mandarin speakers to deal directly with clients and see firsthand what impact economic trends were having.

The potential reach was to more than 1.25 billion Mandarin speakers in China, Taiwan and Singapore.

The obvious advantage of pinyin-based input methods is the ease of learning for Mandarin speakers.

Chinese languages - 2.6 million + (mostly Cantonese speakers, with a growing group of Mandarin speakers)

It is only to Mandarin speakers where Peking sounded "alien".