Our specialised Mandarin Reading and Writing course targets elements of Chinese language learning that are often perceived as higher difficulty and explores them in an immersive and effective manner ...

Last summer, Barbara Odom of Chanhassen looked at her daughter and considered two possibilities for the girl's first days in a Mandarin Chinese kindergarten class. One, Gabbi would love language ...

Durrell Laury was in line at Nordstrom with his mom when he heard a group of women behind him speaking Mandarin. The 5-year-old turned and said, "Ni hao (hello)," watching for their reaction. The ...

For teenager Cameron Persons, Chinese has character. "I love the characters," said Persons, 17, who enrolled in Mandarin 1 at Piedmont High School and is one of many Bay Area students now learning the ...

I remember the moment vividly: My students and I huddled around the tables in the kids’ section at the library while I introduced myself as their Mandarin tutor. After telling my students what my ...

As a two-time Olympic champion and a father to two young daughters, Danish shuttler Viktor Axelsen has a lot on his plate. And in times of immense stress, the current world No. 2 badminton player has ...

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FEW people live to 111. Fewer still leave as big a mark on linguistic lives as Zhou Youguang, who died on January 14th. Mr Zhou was the chief architect of pinyin, the system that the Chinese use to ...