For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into a single ...

The Confucius Institute at Purdue will offer Basic Mandarin Chinese this fall as a six-week, noncredit course. The highly interactive course, focusing on spoken Chinese, will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 ...

Montgomery High School freshman Camden Dahms doesn’t usually get to throw punches in class. But on Friday, Dahms and his first-year Mandarin classmates learned the basic moves of Wushu, a Chinese ...

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 ...

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.

AVON LAKE, Ohio -- Research shows that learning a second language at an early age benefits students over the years. Several studies show children who study foreign language show higher cognitive ...

They’re speaking the love languages. A couple who met on the language-learning app Duolingo has tied the knot. According to a blog post in honor of Valentine’s Day, the lovebirds’ meet-cute occurred ...

Don't know what that means? By this time next year, a few hundred Tucson students and hundreds of thousands more nationwide might, as Mandarin Chinese makes a major entrance into the nation's schools, ...

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 ...

Last year Ubisoft released My French Coach and My Spanish Coach for the Nintendo DS, successfully cashing in on the growing demand for language games that allow people to quickly pick up on the basics ...