Ministry of Education statistics from 2021 underscored this trend, revealing that over 25 million individuals overseas were engaged in learning Chinese at the time. Notably, Duolingo had over 12.9 ...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--COVID-19 has caused schools to shut across the world, resulting in over 1.2 billion children globally being out of the classroom. Education has been altered drastically, and ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

One of my biggest frustrations with reading in one of the few foreign languages I’ve dabbled in is how long it takes to look up all the words I don’t know (which, admittedly, is a lot of them). It’s ...

SINGAPORE & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LingoAce, a Singapore-headquartered global education technology company and leading Mandarin Chinese language learning platform, has shared new findings ...

For many Westerners, pinyin appears as yet another barrier to learning Chinese. The system of putting Mandarin's 407 sounds (each with four different tones) into Western letters, developed in the ...

What would it take to have five percent of American high school students learning Chinese by 2015? This essay recommends a national commitment and investments in teaching Chinese language and culture.

Students put on a kung fu performance to mark Chinese Language Day on April 20 at the Confucius Institute at the University of Zambia in the country's capital Lusaka. [Photo/Xinhua] Sixteen-year-old ...