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Mandarin speaking Briton to star in a Chinese sitcom
Bilingual Briton c has beaten off stiff competition to land a role in a new Chinese sitcom, Ciao Britain.
Having studied Mandarin at Sheffield University, 24-year-old, ended up working as a translator even though he always harboured hopes to one day become an actor.
But when the call came for an English actor to play a struggling graduate in a Chinese sitcom Mr Heathcote jumped at the opportunity.
See the BBC interview with Mr Heathcote
Having studied Mandarin at Sheffield University, 24-year-old, ended up working as a translator even though he always harboured hopes to one day become an actor.
But when the call came for an English actor to play a struggling graduate in a Chinese sitcom Mr Heathcote jumped at the opportunity.
See the BBC interview with Mr Heathcote
Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire
Not all languages require the use of a future tense
Could
the language we speak skew our financial decision-making, and does the
fact that you're reading this in English make you less likely than a
Mandarin speaker to save for your old age?
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