Learn Mandarin with the popular ABC Kids podcast Soundwalks which takes you on an audio journey of discovery through forests, ...

I break down how to pronounce all six Chinese vowels across four tones, making it simple for beginners to follow along. My ...

To many learners encountering Mandarin for the first time, Chinese names often sound melodic and graceful — sometimes even like fragments of poetry. Yet this elegance is not accidental. It reflects a ...

Some American families are packing up and moving to China or other parts of Asia to give their kids an immersive experience and a leg up in Mandarin. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports on two families who ...

DENVER - Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life. University of ...

NEW YORK — Cantonese, a Chinese dialect that has dominated the Chinatowns of North America for decades, is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin, the national language of China and the lingua franca ...

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...