Promote Mandarin Council information

The Promote Mandarin Council is a Singaporean organisation established in 1979 as part of then-PM Lee Kuan Yew's programme to promote Mandarin as the preferred...

Kuan Yew and organised by the Promote Mandarin Council, the SMC has been an annual event promoting the use of Mandarin. In 1966, the Singapore Government...

Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, and in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard...

Chinese characters. After the Speak Mandarin Campaign in 1979, the Promote Mandarin Council started research on Mandarin standardization based on case studies...

2009-03-07. Retrieved 2012-01-20. "Speak Mandarin Campaign". Singapore Promote Mandarin Council. Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2010-10-07...

Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2010. Video example of Singdarin Singaporean Mandarin Database – Promote Mandarin Council...

announced and kickstarted the Speak Mandarin Campaign in 1979, the Promote Mandarin Council started research on Mandarin standardisation based on case studies...

Cantonese. Singaporean Mandarin and Malaysian Mandarin are written using Simplified characters. They are regulated by Promote Mandarin Council and Chinese Language...

2012. Retrieved 10 February 2012. "Speak Mandarin Campaign – History and Background". Promote Mandarin Council. 2004. Archived from the original on 22...

the Steering Committee of the National Design Centre, and the Promote Mandarin Council. He continues to be a member of the International Academy of Digital...

also have a more descriptive approach, however, while maintaining and promoting (but not imposing) a standard spelling. Many language academies are private...

Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu (Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'National language') or Huayu (華語; Huáyǔ; 'Mandarin language'),...

others. Mandarin in the Philippines can be classified into two distinct Mandarin dialects: Standard Mandarin and Colloquial Mandarin. Standard Mandarin is...

Taiwan promote Mandarin learning in the United States and around the world. BBC News reported that the US government is giving preference to Mandarin learning...

Standard Chinese is a standard form of Mandarin Chinese with de facto official status in China, Taiwan, and Singapore. The Chinese language has always...

and Singapore. In Wa State, Mandarin Chinese is de facto the official language, even though the government tries to promote the use of Wa. This situation...

but by the late 20th century it had been eclipsed by Mandarin. The Government promotes Mandarin among Singaporean Chinese people, since it views the language...

language or national language of permanent members in the Security Council: Chinese (Mandarin Chinese in simplified Chinese characters) – due to being the official...

size of an orange. It is a citrus hybrid (mandarin × pomelo), though it was once thought to be a pure mandarin. "Pon" harkens to the "Poona orange" of original...

Other well-known systems include Wade–Giles (Beijing Mandarin) and Yale romanization (Beijing Mandarin and Cantonese). There are many uses for Chinese romanization...

vernacular languages – Malay, Mandarin and Tamil, for instance. Examples of such songs include Malay song "Di Tanjung Katong", Mandarin song "Xin Yao", and Tamil...

organization that had been headed by Wu Zhihui for a while is the Mandarin Promotion Council. The first meeting took place on 15 February 1913 in Beijing,...

Corporation of New York—to promote area studies. For this agenda, it already had a natural institutional partner, the American Council of Learned Societies;...

The main council oversees over 200 chapters in multiple countries. The group holds an annual Overseas Chinese World Conference for Promoting Peaceful...

furthered her acting and musical career. 1996: Chen released her first Mandarin language album, I Don't Think So (我不以為), in, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore...

national terrorism campaign on the United States led by the mysterious Mandarin. After the release of Iron Man 2 in May 2010, director Favreau chose not...

Tongyong Pinyin was the official romanization of Mandarin in Taiwan between 2002 and 2008. The system was unofficially used between 2000 and 2002, when...

Post-handover governments have promoted Mandarin, which is currently about as prevalent as English; 54.2% of the population speak Mandarin, with 2.3% native speakers...

because Mandarin was deemed more economically valuable, and speaking Mandarin would help Chinese Singaporeans retain their heritage, as Mandarin supposedly...