Am I speaking Chinese in this house?

我在说外语吗？

And, no, we don't speak Chinese.

而且，是的，我们不会说中文。

To somebody who speaks Chinese, standing outside this room, it might seem like the person inside the room speaks Chinese.

对于说中文的人来说，站在这个房间外面，可能会觉得房间里的人会说中文。

I can speak Chinese, but I can't read it.

207我会说中文，但看不懂。

In one Chinese room is somebody who actually speaks Chinese, and in the other room is our impostor.

其中一个房间里是真正会说中文的人，而另一个房间里的是个冒牌货。

And people who speak Mandarin Chinese, typically written top to bottom, often refer to the past as above, and the future as below.

说普通话的人，通常是从上到下写字，通常是上面提到过去，下面提到未来。

" John speaks Chinese, as does Lucy." Okay?

所以：“约翰和露西一样会说中文。”好的？

One-fifth of the world's population speak Chinese.

世界上五分之一的人口说中文。

Most of my family members speak Chinese to me.

- 我的大多数家庭成员都对我说中文。

Generally speaking, Chinese students are very shy.

总的来说，中国学生很腼腆。

A family on the fifth floor was expats and speak little Chinese.

五楼的一家人是外籍人士， 不会说中文。

When the person who actually speaks Chinese gets a piece of paper that says something in Chinese in it, they can read it, no problem.

当真正讲中文的人拿到一张写有中文的纸时，他/她当然可以读懂。

Most historians don't think he learned to speak Chinese.

大多数历史学家认为他没有学会说中文。

This is a Chinese company. I don't speak Chinese so I have no idea how it's said in Chinese, but in English we say Huawei.

这是一家中国公司。我不会说中文，所以我不知道用中文怎么说，但用英语我们说 Huawei。

Both of the anchors were men, one spoke Chinese and the other English.

两位主播都是男性，一位会说中文，另一位会说英语。

On the other hand, if you are with people and you're speaking Chinese and you're with them over dinner and everybody's speaking Chinese, and you're speaking Chinese and you're participating in the conference, that's tremendously powerful.

另一方面，如果你和别人在一起，你说中文，你和他们一起吃饭，每个人都说中文，你说中文，你加入讨论，这是非常密集的语言接触。

I have to say, she's using English language as a mother tongue language, because she doesn't speak Chinese to us.

- 我不得不说，她用英语作为母语， 因为她不会跟我们说中文。

The mother never speaks Chinese in front of her children, so that they are used to hearing English from her.

这位母亲从不在孩子们面前说中文，他们因此习惯了听她说英语。

More people speak Mandarin Chinese than any other language in the world, but English is becoming the world's international language, Why is this?

说普通话的人比世界上任何其他语言都多，但英语正在成为世界的国际语言，这是为什么呢？

Samuel Caldwell, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke no Chinese but developed a system whereby each key on the QWERTY keyboard represented a brush stroke in a character; typing the first few strokes linked to a photographic storage matrix.

麻省理工学院教授塞缪尔·考德威尔不会说中文，但开发了一个系统，其中QWERTY键盘上的每个键代表汉字的一个笔画，输入前几个笔画就会链接到一个照片存储矩阵。