If the average person were asked to name the hardest language in the world to learn, what would it be? Many people would guess Mandarin Chinese, and they would be in the majority, but they would also ...

STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China - as our team has been doing - you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of Chinese citizens have been educated in the United States.

SINGAPORE & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LingoAce, a Singapore-headquartered global education technology company and leading Mandarin Chinese language learning platform, has shared new findings ...

In this video, I break down how to say "I'm important" in Chinese at different intensity levels, from humble to over-the-top ...

The teacher stands in front of the class and pronounces a word that sounds like “nee-how.” Some of the 10 students laugh, but they gamely mimic the pronunciation of the word “ni hao,” meaning “hello,” ...

Thousands of American public schools have stopped teaching foreign languages over the last decade, but, when it comes to Chinese, schools are heading in the other direction. Between 1997 and 2008, in ...

It’s Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes, three salarymen split from the ...

Infants may be more sensitive to non-native speech sounds than previously thought, according to a new study. The findings shed light on the way babies begin to understand language. Infants may be more ...