Language learning apps like Duolingo are useful, but they have their limits. They're ideal for getting started with a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The data would seem to be in: China is poised to become the world's economic leader within the next few decades. But there are those under the impression that this will mean a sea change in the ...

One’s first language, or mother tongue, is commonly defined as the language that one has been exposed to from birth. One’s second language is learned later, and can be a language used in one’s ...

Chinese language immersion kindergarteners Matthew Sullivan, left, and Robert Sawyer, right, each turned to look for approval from their two teachers after they pointed to the same Mandarin Chinese ...

Dr. Doom is taking a break from his regimen of gloomy predictions to learn a little Mandarin Chinese. Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University best known for predicting the U.S.