Mandarin Chinese language learning has been growing in the United States, especially among young people with immersion programs for K-12 students increasing an average of 16% a year for the last ...

At long last Duolingo, the free language learning app on iOS, Android, and the web, has launched its Chinese course for English speakers. Now you can try your hand at one of the most difficult ...

On a recent morning in Overland Park, Kan., at a school next to a horse pasture in the middle of the country, a kindergartener raised his hand and asked to go to the bathroom — in Mandarin Chinese.

How do you say “ancillary revenue streams” in Mandarin? Nickelodeon execs hope to learn after launching “Ni Hao, Kai-lan,” the network’s bid to replicate the billion-dollar, bilingual success of “Dora ...

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

HOUSTON, Texas HISD wants voters to approve a $1.9 billion bond issue to rebuild and renovate schools. One of the schools that stands to benefit is an old campus in Bellaire that has a very new and ...

NPR Short Wave host and reporter Emily Kwong is a third generation Chinese American, but she's never spoken her family's language. Until now. At age 30, she's trying to learn the language for the ...

Nearly 1 billion people speak Mandarin Chinese. NPR Short Wave host Emily Kwong is not among them. As a third-generation Chinese-American, her "heritage language" was lost through the generations.