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 ...

When the communists took over mainland, the literacy rate in China was below 20 percent. It is now 95 percent, according to some estimates. The same rate among young people (15 to 24 years old) is now ...

This summer, Dartmouth’s Chinese language study abroad program returned to Beijing after a five year pause, according to Asian societies, cultures and languages department chair Edward Miller. The ...

Pro-Beijing political veteran and former president of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, has said that the tense relations between the mainland and Hong Kong are partly due to ...

The official language of China is Mandarin Chinese, or Putonghua, which means common speech. It is the standard language for government, education, and media, and is based on the Beijing dialect, ...

Horry County Schools officials who recently traveled to China to learn more about the educational system there returned with an appreciation of English language training in that country’s schools, and ...

For years, conversations about gender-neutral language have felt like a distinctly American—or at least English-speaking—debate. Pronouns like they/them have entered mainstream usage, corporate ...

INSIDE THE CLASSROOM. WHY YOU NEED FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS. THE SHUNG FAMILY CHINESE CULTURAL CENTER IN OAKLAND HAS BEEN TEACHING CANTONESE AND MANDARIN TO BAY AREA SCHOOL KIDS. HI, MY NAME IS AMOROS ...