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 Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes, three salarymen split from the ...

One’s first language, or mother tongue, is commonly defined as the language that one has been exposed to from birth. One’s second language is learned later, and can be a language used in one’s ...

Imagine the process of going into a restaurant and ordering food. Simultaneously, you could be glancing through the menu while also listening to and speaking with the waiter or your companions. When ...

The data would seem to be in: China is poised to become the world's economic leader within the next few decades. But there are those under the impression that this will mean a sea change in the ...

Chinese language immersion kindergarteners Matthew Sullivan, left, and Robert Sawyer, right, each turned to look for approval from their two teachers after they pointed to the same Mandarin Chinese ...

A Mandarin-speaking Malay mother and daughter believe learning more languages helps to promote unity and multiculturalism.