While romance languages like French and Spanish used to be the norm, Mandarin is exploding in popularity among students and families. As she counts the numbers in Mandarin, 8-year-old Anna McCuistion ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Ever imagined what it would be like to understand your favorite Chinese dramas without subtitles? Maybe you’ve gotten hooked on the ...

In Santa Barbara, children laugh, practice new words, and repeat phrases together while learning one of the world’s oldest ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ivie Hunt was barely 6 last spring and had just finished kindergarten when she shocked the hostess at a Denver Asian restaurant by chatting comfortably in ...

It's been shown that the left side of the brain processes language and the right side processes music; but what about a language like Mandarin Chinese, which is musical in nature with wide tonal ...

With China’s growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools. And while those activities are getting help from ...

Mandarin Chinese is a famously difficult language for native English speakers to learn as adults. As with any language, experts say it's best if you start young. In small pockets across South Carolina ...

A multinational effort to boost the number of U.S. students studying abroad in China has expanded its focus to stateside Mandarin language learning. The push, led by the US-China Strong Foundation, ...

Families in Lafayette Parish have a new option for language immersion in the fall. The World Languages Academy, a satellite pod of Lafayette Renaissance Charter Academy, will welcome kindergarten and ...

The introduction of the Mandarin Chinese language to East African school curricula signals China’s growing influence in Africa as a global superpower. China has sponsored CIs since 2004 and hundreds ...