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.

Language learning app Duolingo has seen an over 200% spike in U.S. users learning Mandarin "out of spite" as many flee to Chinese app RedNote amid the uncertainty surrounding TikTok's future. On ...

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 ...

Available figures suggest enthusiasm is waning after years of rapid growth, with analysts pointing to China's economy and image problems When Colby Porter began Mandarin classes in sixth grade in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, during the early stages of the Cold War, the Eisenhower administration created programs to train thousands of professors, analysts and policymakers in Russian language skills. Decades ...

SexyMandarin.com – whose motto is, "Learning Mandarin in an unconventional way" – has become a runaway internet hit since launching last December, posting online lessons that owe more to Los Angeles' ...