If they're the only thing you use to learn a language and your goal is to become fluent, however, they aren't efficient at ...

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, is using IBM Watson technology to provide an immersive, real-life experience using avatars to teach students Mandarin. For Julian Wong, a ...

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 ...

A new opportunity for people to learn Mandarin Chinese in Wake County is all because of a partnership between the United States and Taiwan. The North Carolina Raleigh Taiwan Center for Mandarin ...

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 ...

With China’s growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools. And while those activities are getting help from ...

Students at Station Middle School eagerly showed their cultural understanding of China, greeting a Chinese diplomat who recently visited the Barrington school with Chinese welcome songs and the ...

A Denver charter school that excels on state tests and focuses on preparing students for an increasingly complicated world also refuses to teach English to its youngest students. Kids in kindergarten ...

Some languages take far more practice to learn, let alone master. These are 7 currently spoken languages that are some of the most difficult to learn.