noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
speak
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The most widely spoken of these is Mandarin with about 800m speakers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For you, the Mandarin Club guest, breakfast in the morning and cocktails in the evening are with our compliments.
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He was a matinee-handsome man who could have been an actor on the Mandarin stage.
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I would have been great as a chef, a Mandarin actor, or a fence post.
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Most speak Cantonese, with a little Mandarin and Hakka also spoken.
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The most widely spoken of these is Mandarin with about 800m speakers.
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The pronunciations given for these components, and for the characters of which they form part, are those of present-day Mandarin .
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This was before I had the clips that translated into expense accounts and hotels like the Shangri-la or the Mandarin .