KUALA LUMPUR (The Straits Times): 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 ...

Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the ...

Students at Station Middle School eagerly showed their cultural understanding of China, greeting a Chinese diplomat who recently visited the Barrington school with Chinese welcome songs and the ...

Ask incoming eighth-grader Josh Mussman at Dana Middle School in Hawthorne why he chose to take Mandarin Chinese, and the answer he gives is 100 percent pragmatic: “I had a friend inform me that China ...

Marbeya Garcia’s mind sometimes flits among three languages when she is doing her homework. Fluent in English and Spanish, the Slater Middle School eighth-grader is taking conversational Mandarin, a ...

For nearly an hour, no one speaks a word of English in this first-grade math class. Not the teacher, Ying Ying Wu, who talks energetically in Mandarin’s songlike tones. Not the students — 6- and ...

Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises involved in learning Mandarin or the intensity of living in Shanghai ...