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In this short clip I walk you through how to say call a taxi in Mandarin, step by step. I show you the phrase 叫出租车 with ...

Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don’t give us the sound of a word, so ...

One’s first language, or mother tongue, is commonly defined as the language that one has been exposed to from birth. One’s second language is learned later, and can be a language used in one’s ...