"Studying Mandarin has opened up a very different way of life for me," he said.

He was a language student studying Mandarin in 1982 as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College.

Here, for three years, they studied Mandarin and Tibetan.

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Tell your kids to study Mandarin.

Taiwan has long been a place for students to study Mandarin.

These schools were intended to provide top-scoring primary school leavers with the opportunity to study both English and Mandarin to high levels of competence.

In the 1930s he studied Mandarin, believing it to be the language of the future.

The university also has a separate language institute where fee-paying students can study Mandarin and Taiwanese.

When the plane crashed, she was traveling to China to study Mandarin, her career undecided.