An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

ANHUI, East China — These days, Xu Li doesn’t worry whenever her elderly father takes off on one of his frequent solo trips to Europe. Although the native of provincial capital Hefei speaks little ...

Once regarded as too local or niche for mainstream audiences, dialects are increasingly becoming a powerful narrative tool in ...

SINGAPORE — The Tok and Teo families are a model of traditional harmony, with three generations gathered under one roof, enjoying each other’s company over slices of fruit and cups of tea on a ...

Bertha Asiedua Boadu, a young Ghanaian student, became fond of watching Chinese movies in 2020. To grasp the plot without relying on subtitles, the young student started using online Chinese-language ...

Me and my Chinese-speaking white friends went to Brooklyn Chinatown to practice our Mandarin, Cantonese, and the rare dialect of Fuzhounese (also known as Fuzhou dialect or Hokchew / Hock Chew), which ...

A competitor performs Sichuan Opera face-changing during the final of the 2026 Chinese Bridge Language Proficiency ...