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Paint Your World: Colours in Mandarin

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A Rainbow Riddle

A Rainbow Riddle

Look around the room you are in right now. How many different colours can you spot in just ten seconds? Now here is the big question: did you know that over one billion people on Earth use a completely different set of words for those colours? Mandarin Chinese is the most-spoken language in the world by number of native speakers. Today you are going to learn how to say colours the way a child in Beijing or Shanghai would say them.

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