NCOs teach our Soldiers when not to shoot, which is sometimes more important than shooting. Sergeants take the theory of being a Soldier and apply it to people to make them Soldiers. NCOs advise and mentor officers. Starting at the platoon level, our Army marries an officer and a seasoned NCO to accomplish missions. And it works. The combination of commission and noncommissioned officer is powerful and a critical difference in our Army. Senior NCOs advise senior officers about all enlisted issues and concerns. Officers count on NCOs for recommendations on their most critical decisions. Want the truth, ask an NCO.
Mandarin (/ËmÃ¦ndÉrÉªn, -drÉªn/; simplified Chinese: å®è¯; traditional Chinese: å®è©±; pinyin: GuÄnhuÃ ; literally: speech of officials) is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese.
The same script is used to write all Chinese languages but Cantonese and Mandarin, when spoken, are mutually unintelligible. They more different from each other than, say, Italian and Spanish are different from each other. Cantonese is spoken in Guangdong province in China and in Hong Kong. Mandarin is the official language of China so most people in China have learned it in school and can speak it. Most Chinese people in Manhattan are Cantonese speakers but the newer immigrants tend to be Mandarin speakers and Fujianese speakers.