Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Students of Universities in the Greater New York area show their proficiency in Mandarin in the final round of the inaugural Hong Kong Cup Chinese Speech Contest organized by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York (New York ETO)
Thursday, November 25, 2010
SBS Australia launches ‘Mandarin News Australia’ on 24 November 2010. SBS is the first TV station in Australia to lauch Mandarin program.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Republican Meg Whitman has launched a Mandarin advertising blitz on television which is believed to be the first of its kind in California.
Whitman’s new TV ads in Mandarin and Cantonese follow a major push by the billionaire political novice and former eBay chief executive to court Latino voters through Spanish-language TV, radio, billboards and other media. (Source: Reuters)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Encouraged by the United States and Chinese governments, more schools in Greater New York have begun offering and some even requiring the study of Mandarin at the elementary level. (Source: Asia Wall Street Journal online edition)
Monday, September 20, 2010
The leading retail bank in Hong Kong Hang Seng Bank Limited adopted NextSpeak Mandarin TTS software to equip her staff with Mandarin skills to serve Mandarin spoken customers.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
A ten-year study conducted by a professor at University of British Columbia finds Mandarin-speaking girls are four times more likely than other Asian students to get good grades in high school. Education Prof. Lee Gunderson at UBC has been examining trends among immigrant students in Vancouver public schools for more than a decade. Gunderson said his latest study examined the stereotype that Asian students are all high-performers by comparing Grade 12 marks of groups that speak Mandarin, Cantonese and other Asian languages.
Source: Vancouver Sun
Hong Kong Schools Putonghua Competition
The 5th Kindergarten and Primary School Putonghua Contest has been successfully concluded on May 1, 2010. The prize presentation ceremony held right after the final was well-attended by over 650 students, parents and teachers. They all had a joyful and memorable moment. Well Develop has sponsored the prizes for the winners. 581 students (434 from kindergartens and 147 from primary schools) have participated in the 3 day preliminaries which were held on April 17, 18 and 25. Out of which 136 students were selected to compete in the final. Well Develop sponsored softwares were presented to the 27 winners, first and second runner-ups.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Four major state-owned enterprises and the Bank of Beijing signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hong Kong based ATV. “Quasi-shareholder” Wing Fung Holdings Chairman Wang Zheng , said he is planning to apply for a permit set up a Mandarin cable TV channel targeting at the audience of mainland China. Mr. Wang ambitiously announced that his aim is to make the whole world watch ATV which will be positioned as the Asia’s CNN. (Sing Tao Daily reported)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
From now till December 31, 2009 you can enjoy a great saving of US$15 if you order NextSpeak Mandarin TTS (US$49.95) plus Voice Memory Game (US$14.95) in a single order.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Partly because Fr. Cucchiara Memorial School uses NextSpeak Mandarin TTS to assist the teaching of Mandarin in the school, over 50% of participating students from the school obtained excellent results from the recent Public Mandarin Test. In order to encourage the students to sharpen their Mandarin conversation proficiency, the School also runs program which rewards those students who listen to Mandarin stories through NextSpeak Mandarin TTS during the holidays daily.
Fr. Cucchiara Memorial School
NextSpeak Mandarin TTS can read any Chinese text in a fluent human voice. Therefore, students can learn whatever content they are interested in.
