Will Mandarin Still Be Relevant in the Future? A 10-Year Career Outlook for India

by Nazia | Feb 19, 2026 | [:en]Business[:zh]业务, [:en]Culture[:zh]文化, Language, Travel

As India steps deeper into global trade, technology partnerships, and manufacturing expansion, one question keeps surfacing: Will Mandarin still be relevant in the future? The short answer is — yes, and perhaps more than ever. Despite geopolitical fluctuations, trade...

Master conversational Mandarin with podcasts

by Inchincloser | Dec 20, 2023 | [:en]Culture[:zh]文化, Language, Travel

Learning Conversational Mandarin through podcasts was a huge breakthrough idea in 2023. Podcasts offer the flexibility of listening anywhere, practice in immersing yourself wholly in Chinese language and culture as well as are the richest resource for listening to...

Pursuing Mandarin at higher levels

by Inchincloser | Oct 12, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Language

If you’re looking at pursuing Mandarin language as a career, want to join the Indian Foreign Services or would like to research more into India’s largest neighbour, here are a few options beyond the regular HSK courses. For those that are more serious about learning...

Learn to count in Mandarin

by Inchincloser | Jul 4, 2023 | [:en]Business[:zh]业务, Foreign Direct Investment, Language, Trade, Travel

Learning to count in Mandarin is one of the most essential skills new students want to learn when they sign up for Inchin Closers Mandarin Language classes. Being able to bargain for the right price or surreptitiously trying to understand what two Chinese businessmen...

Mandarin – An Inclusive Language; way ahead of its time

by Inchincloser | Jun 27, 2023 | [:en]Culture[:zh]文化, Language

Indian languages as well as many European languages have gendered pronouns built into their languages. While he and she remain for a majority of languages, Indian and European languages also assign gendered pronouns to objects such as a chair or a computer. Mandarin...