Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Ever imagined what it would be like to understand your favorite Chinese dramas without subtitles? Maybe you’ve gotten hooked on the ...

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 ...

At first glance, this sixth-grade classroom at Newhart Middle School looks normal with its clustered desks, hand-drawn posters and teacher standing at the front of the classroom. A closer look and ...

Mandarin Chinese is a famously difficult language for native English speakers to learn as adults. As with any language, experts say it's best if you start young. In small pockets across South Carolina ...

Glenwood Elementary is a school divided as it awaits its fate, where some students in the Mandarin dual-language program have been bullied, parents and teachers told the school board Thursday night.

This post was updated May 1 at 10:52 p.m. While most students share gossip in their native languages and with their dearest friends, Leo Kitaen has a different approach. Instead, Kitaen, a first-year ...

A bipartisan commission focused on the rule of law and human rights in China is recommending that the US Congress scale up immersion programmes for Mandarin and other languages spoken on the mainland ...

The introduction of the Mandarin Chinese language to East African school curricula signals China’s growing influence in Africa as a global superpower. China has sponsored CIs since 2004 and hundreds ...

John Hersey High School senior Olivia Marunde’s passion for Mandarin was sparked in fourth grade after a grant from the Chinese government brought a pilot language program to her elementary school in ...

A vote to expand a Mandarin program will convert Chapel Hill’s oldest elementary school into a magnet school, will send local students who don’t want to learn the language to other schools and will ...

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ oldest elementary school will offer expanded Mandarin language instruction, but as part of a new, broader focus meant to attract more diverse students. Last year ...