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 ...

Mandarin is spoken across the globe, and its real power lies in the doors it opens. Learning it connects you to culture, ...

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In the 1950s, during the early stages of the Cold War, the Eisenhower administration created programs to train thousands of professors, analysts and policymakers in Russian language skills. Decades ...

Poems, vocabularies, pinyin diagrams and schedules pinned on the wall are all in Chinese. In a classroom decorated with paper lanterns and fai chun — red paper with written blessings hung on doorways ...

Language learning app Duolingo has seen an over 200% spike in U.S. users learning Mandarin "out of spite" as many flee to Chinese app RedNote amid the uncertainty surrounding TikTok's future. On ...