The Confucius Institute at Purdue will offer "Basic Mandarin Chinese" this fall. The six-week, noncredit course will meet on every Wednesday night from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 18-Oct. 23 in Stanley Coulter ...

At Juba Teaching Hospital, Chinese medical workers have launched an initiative to teach South Sudanese health care workers ...

While Mandarin Chinese is the most commonly spoken language on earth, Mandarin language programs are a rarity in South Carolina: East Light Academy is the first public school of its ...

For example, in the standard Mandarin spoken in China, baba — father — is pronounced with an emphasis on the first syllable, said Hongyin Tao, a professor of Chinese language and linguistics ...

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.

Staff at an upmarket department store are being taught Mandarin so they can serve designer-mad Chinese shoppers. Language tutors are giving assistants at Selfridges in Manchester city centre a ...

Immigration officers will be taught basic Mandarin to help them communicate with Chinese travelers visiting the Philippines, according to the Bureau of Immigration. Article continues after this ...