Chinese is in. Latin and French, it seems, are out. And Spanish is still, well, el jefe. (Translation: the boss or chief.) That’s my quick-and-dirty takeaway from new data on the study of foreign ...

Findings from a new Stanford Graduate School of Education study on the benefits of Ohlone Elementary School’s Mandarin immersion program might just convince any naysayers of expanding the program in ...

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Yang Zhi (1st right, back row), minister-counselor for culture at the Chinese Embassy in Australia, and Carol Keil (2nd right, back row), president of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) branch of ...

Ten years ago Mandarin, the mother tongue of most Chinese, was being hyped as the language of the future. In 2015 the administration of Barack Obama called for 1m primary- and secondary-school ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lilliam Malavé, a faculty member in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, will lead a troupe of UB students and Western New York educators who will learn the Mandarin ...

The study of Chinese as a foreign language has become one of the world’s largest language learning markets in just 10 years of exponential growth. Kick-started in 2004 by the launch of the Confucius ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, using intracranial recordings, researchers investigated the neural basis of lexical tone production in native Mandarin speakers. They ...

The Star Mandarin School's online platform takes advantage of our resources, training and innovation to provide students with an excellent online learning experience. Our consolidation of our students ...

"Chinese is a very gorgeous language, very pretty. It could be helpful in the future," said Stephanie Campbell, a year-seven student in Melrose High School. Although she has been learning Chinese for ...