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  2. Change your language or location preferences in AOL

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    Login to your AOL account. 2. Click your profile to access your Account info. 3. From the Language menu, select your desired language and region. Still need help? Call paid premium support at...

  3. Chinese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    The first references to sign language (simplified Chinese: 手语; traditional Chinese: 手語; pinyin: shǒuyǔ; lit. 'hand language') in Chinese literature date from the Tang dynasty, documenting a sign for 'mirror'. In the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo describes a community that employed a form of sign language.

  4. Chinese language law - Wikipedia

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    The law made it illegal to teach languages other than Chinese in schools. Similar laws have been widely criticised as attempts to force minority groups to assimilate into Chinese culture, though the PRC denies those claims. See also. Standard Chinese; Constitution of the People's Republic of China; Table of General Standard Chinese Characters

  5. Chinglish - Wikipedia

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    A 2010 sign on the wall surrounding the Tiger Hill Pagoda warning tourists not to climb up, it demonstrates the complexity of translation. The English word Chinglish is a portmanteau of Chinese and English. The Chinese equivalent is Zhōngshì Yīngyǔ (simplified Chinese: 中式英语; traditional Chinese: 中式英語; lit. 'Chinese-style ...

  6. Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) - Wikipedia

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    Mandarin ( traditional Chinese: 官話; simplified Chinese: 官话; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'official speech') was the common spoken language of administration of the Chinese empire during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It arose as a practical measure, due to the mutual unintelligibility of the varieties of Chinese spoken in different parts of China.

  7. Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    Chinese ( simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [i] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak a ...

  8. Dalian dialect - Wikipedia

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    None. The Dalian dialect ( simplified Chinese: 大连话; traditional Chinese: 大連話; pinyin: Dàliánhuà, Romaji: Dairen-ben) is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken on the Liaodong Peninsula, China including the city of Dalian and parts of Dandong and Yingkou. The Dalian dialect shares many similarities with the Yantai dialect and Weihai ...

  9. Microsoft asks some China staff to relocate amid Sino ... - AOL

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    The employees, mostly engineers of Chinese nationality, were earlier in the week offered an option to transfer to the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, WSJ reported, citing people ...

  10. Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study - Wikipedia

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    The Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University ( Chinese: 清华IUP中文中心) is an advanced Mandarin Chinese study center in Beijing associated with Stanford University. IUP started in Taipei, Taiwan in 1963 and was known as the Stanford Center. In 1997 it moved to Beijing, following Mainland China 's ...

  11. Bachelor of Science - Wikipedia

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    India. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) is usually a three-year graduate program in India offered by state and central universities. Some independent private colleges can also offer BS degrees with minimum changes in curriculum. B.Sc is different from Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) or Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech).