The number of people in Hong Kong learning Mandarin has increased. PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY For half a year, 10-year-old Kee Sum-yuet and her 8-year-old twin brothers have been going to a ...

Learn Mandarin with the popular ABC Kids podcast Soundwalks which takes you on an audio journey of discovery through forests, ...

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 ...

Inside a brightly-lit classroom, around 20 schoolchildren are enthusiastically singing the Chinese national anthem. That song is followed by another tune in Chinese – one typically sung during the ...

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 classes. Going by the online moniker ...

Ten years ago Mandarin, the mother tongue of most Chinese, was being hyped as the language of the future. In 2015 the administration of Barack Obama called for 1m primary- and secondary-school ...

They’re speaking the love languages. A couple who met on the language-learning app Duolingo has tied the knot. According to a blog post in honor of Valentine’s Day, the lovebirds’ meet-cute occurred ...

AUCKLAND: Mandarin was once the darling of foreign language learning in New Zealand. Students even used to camp overnight outside the University of Auckland's foreign language department to get a spot ...