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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ivie Hunt was barely 6 last spring and had just finished kindergarten when she shocked the hostess at a Denver Asian restaurant by chatting comfortably in ...

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Activists have called the decree an attempt to Sinicize the education system in ethnic and rural areas. (A representational image) (Photo: iStock) A new decree by China has imposed the Mandarin ...

Russell H. Kaschula receives funding from the National Research Foundation. Monica Hendricks receives funding from the National Research Foundation and the Rhodes Council. Pamela Maseko receives ...

This post was updated May 1 at 10:52 p.m. While most students share gossip in their native languages and with their dearest friends, Leo Kitaen has a different approach. Instead, Kitaen, a first-year ...

KUALA LUMPUR (The Straits Times): Former bank officer Sri Devi Mani, 41, grew up in Selangor speaking her mother tongue Tamil, and now uses the language to create lessons for her Mandarin tuition ...

One month after Mark Zuckerberg blew up the Internet by participating in a Mandarin Q&A in Beijing, another Facebook executive has given a follow-up performance, albeit a brief one. While speaking at ...

Learning a language can help with employability, but that focus is putting one of Australia’s most popular languages — and its connection to culture — at risk. Josephine Chau remembers her weekly ...