In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, using intracranial recordings, researchers investigated the neural basis of lexical tone production in native Mandarin speakers. They ...

Findings from a new Stanford Graduate School of Education study on the benefits of Ohlone Elementary School’s Mandarin immersion program might just convince any naysayers of expanding the program in ...

Could it be that cellist Yo-Yo Ma owes his perfect musical pitch to his Chinese parents? While we may never know the definitive answer, new research from the University of California, San Diego has ...

NAIROBI, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Dressed in a crisp white tracksuit, 20-year-old Leah Muthoni Kimani, a student at the University of Nairobi, created a viral moment at a public event with her flawless ...

Chinese is in. Latin and French, it seems, are out. And Spanish is still, well, el jefe. (Translation: the boss or chief.) That’s my quick-and-dirty takeaway from new data on the study of foreign ...

Lilliam Malavé, a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education, will lead a troupe of UB students and Western New York educators who will learn the Mandarin language and culture while living ...

The study of Chinese as a foreign language has become one of the world’s largest language learning markets in just 10 years of exponential growth. Kick-started in 2004 by the launch of the Confucius ...

SUMMIT -- Upon entering the classroom, students formally acknowledge each other and their instructor with a bow and a greeting of "Zao an" the Mandarin expression for "good morning." This is the ...

President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative to increase the number of K-12 students in the US studying Mandarin over the next five years to one million, in an extension of the 100,000 Strong ...