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 ...

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There are a dozen terms native Chinese speakers use to describe what English speakers refer to as the “Chinese language.” Each of those terms has its own cultural and sometimes political affiliation.

Steven Frost, the new Mandarin Chinese teacher for Hoover City Schools in Hoover, Ala., gives a basic introduction to the Mandarin Chinese language on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (Jon ...

Mandarin Chinese teacher Janet Lin leads a class at the Westwood School. Thomas Cheatham had planned to study Latin during his sophomore year at Hebron High School. But when he learned that the ...

John Hersey High School senior Olivia Marunde’s passion for Mandarin was sparked in fourth grade after a grant from the Chinese government brought a pilot language program to her elementary school in ...

Duval County Public Schools' first Chinese immersion program is scheduled to open this fall at an existing charter school that focuses on foreign languages. Global Outreach Charter School, a K-8 ...

New Horizons Nigeria has integrated the Chinese language, Mandarin, into its Information and Communication Technology curriculum, offering students a strategic advantage in the global technology ...

Could it be that cellist Yo-Yo Ma owes his perfect musical pitch to his Chinese parents? While we may never know the definitive answer, new research from the University of California, San Diego has ...

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 ...