While romance languages like French and Spanish used to be the norm, Mandarin is exploding in popularity among students and families. As she counts the numbers in Mandarin, 8-year-old Anna McCuistion ...

Duval County Public Schools' first Chinese immersion program is scheduled to open this fall at an existing charter school that focuses on foreign languages. Global Outreach Charter School, a K-8 ...

A Mandarin-speaking Malay mother and daughter believe learning more languages helps to promote unity and multiculturalism.

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. In small pockets across South Carolina ...

Ivie Hunt was barely 6 last spring and had just finished kindergarten when she shocked the hostess at a Denver Asian restaurant by chatting comfortably in Mandarin Chinese. “Here was this little blond ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Most of us only know ...

Students in two kindergarten classes at Starr King Elementary are the first in San Francisco's public schools to learn Mandarin, the national language of China. School district officials hope it will ...

Families in Lafayette Parish have a new option for language immersion in the fall. The World Languages Academy, a satellite pod of Lafayette Renaissance Charter Academy, will welcome kindergarten and ...

With China’s growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools. And while those activities are getting help from ...

Glenwood Elementary is a school divided as it awaits its fate, where some students in the Mandarin dual-language program have been bullied, parents and teachers told the school board Thursday night.

Groom Kirk La surprised his bride Helen Wang by reading his wedding vows aloud in her native language, Mandarin. 'All my family started tearing up immediately after his first word in Chinese,' Wang ...