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STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China - as our team has been doing - you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of Chinese citizens have been educated in the United States.

If the average person were asked to name the hardest language in the world to learn, what would it be? Many people would guess Mandarin Chinese, and they would be in the majority, but they would also ...

Americans are flocking to Chinese app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, as a potential US TikTok ban looms. Some of them are learning Mandarin in an attempt to bridge the language divide on the app.

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Amid the fast-approaching TikTok ban date, Americans are flocking to Duolingo to learn Mandarin Chinese as more and more ...