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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At first glance, this sixth-grade classroom at Newhart Middle School looks normal with its clustered desks, hand-drawn posters and teacher standing at the front of the classroom. A closer look and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Duolingo is one of the most popular language learning apps in the world, providing free access to tons of language courses with an engaging “gamified” experience. It’s already brilliant, featuring on ...

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 ...

“I CAN speak Chinese, I’m so awesome!” reads a sign on the wall of the Mingde primary school in Shufu, a town near the oasis city of Kashgar in the far western province of Xinjiang. Nearby, children’s ...