Sentence examples of "mandarin" in French

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Ce n'est pas du mandarin, mais du shangaïen. This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese.
Il sait parler une sorte de chinois, mais il ne sait pas parler mandarin. She can speak a type of Chinese, but she can't speak Mandarin.
Le shanghaïen est en fait une sorte de pidgin, fondé sur les dialectes wu, le mandarin du bas-Yangtse, et des mots empruntés à l'anglais. Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
J'étudie le mandarin depuis longtemps, mais je ne le parle pas couramment. I've been studying Chinese for a long time, but I'm not fluent.
Apprenez le mandarin, non pour impressionner votre futur employeur, mais pour comprendre ce qu'il dit. Learn Chinese, not to impress your future boss, but to understand what she is saying.
Il disait que parler le mandarin est comme de manger de l'ananas. Ça le démange partout. He said that speaking Chinese is like eating pineapple. It makes him itchy all over.
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