Define corral: a pen or enclosure for confining or capturing livestock â corral in a sentence a pen or enclosure for confining or capturing livestock; an enclosure made with wagons for defense of an encampmentâ¦
Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. From an official point of view, Standard Chinese serves the purpose of a lingua francaâa way for speakers of the several mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinese, as well as the Chinese minorities, to communicate with each other.
Singaporean Hokkien is the largest non-Mandarin Chinese variety spoken in Singapore. The natural tendency of Hokkien-speakers to use the Hokkien way to speak Mandarin has influenced to a large degree the colloquial Mandarin spoken in Singapore.n the colloquial Singaporean Mandarin, äº (already) is often pronounced liao3â, e.g. âåé¥­äº chi fan liaoâ (already eaten). Standard Mandarin would pronounce äº as le. The pronunciation of liao3 comes from Hokkien pronunciation of äº(liau). liÃ¡u