Fated Five - 01 - The Staff of Wukong
Propped up against a stone orb on the counter in front of the window was a red paper envelope with song's name scrawled out in mandarin.
Rogue Sword - Ch 10: The Enemy of My Enemy
It was one thing to learn to speak mandarin, as difficult as that was, but to be able to produce the appropriate four character idiom form the tens of thousands to choose from was truly impressive.
The Fated Five - Chapter 1 (The Staff of Wukong)
Propped up against a stone orb on the counter in front of the window was a red paper envelope with song's name scrawled out in mandarin.
TBE 7: Ramifications
"it's okay," she said in the clipped, mandarin-derived syllables of trade. "i learned when i arrived here." she was still slightly tense, and most definitely confused. "now, who is your friend's... whatever it is?"
Iron Dragon Chapters 92-93
mandarin i can only speak, just too many characters to learn to be able to read or write it. in the short time i was there." nodrog said and laughed. "so you could have written any number of things in any number of books." kathrin asked.
Tracks
The clank he heard was, gray judged, chang's head bouncing off something just hard enough to get him back on task - well, at least he was back to watching, even if there were a few quiet mutterings in mandarin drifting down through the engine rumble.
The Vulpine Smile chapter 3
"i know mandarin," brandon said. "i just started taking french this year," ethan remarked, his eyes downcast. i took a breath and closed my eyes as i thought. "i am fluent in french, arabic, spanish, and german."
The Vulpine Smile chapter 5
"i would suggest you try and learn mandarin. after that, you are pretty much set to go anywhere in the world.
New Arrivals
The mandarin collar made his mane poof out comically, and all-in-all he looked very uncomfortable. "that has to be ridiculously hot, with all your fur," i commented. he looked down at himself, "yeah, it is.
Double Dragon
Note: it is only appropriate to mention that i named lee kin leung and kam lei after two anime characters, but used the eifel/dyer romanisation system instead of pinyin and a cantonese pronunciation instead of mandarin.
Tales from Anthracite City 9: Red Light Entertainment
Yes, you're due for another ten to fifteen pounds destined to go straight to your ass but that seems to be about it if i'm reading this right... course the measurements might as well be in mandarin chinese for how well i can make heads or tails of them
A Yaoguai's Punishment
His mandarin wasn't as great and he can only formulate fragmented sentences, something the others don't seem to be putting much effort to fix, but it was at least enough for the clouded tiger to get his intentions across.