Students study Chinese in a class at the Confucius Institute at the National University of Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.

From the Chinese classes in Vietnam's primary school curriculum, to the foreign language option in Russia's Unified State Exam, from Chinese as an optional subject in Tanzania's college entrance ...

There is a belief widely held across the Western world: Chinese students are schooled through rote, passive learning – and an educational system like this can only produce docile workers who lack ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

Student reads from a Chinese language textbook. (Adek Berry/Getty) China’s economic emergence in recent decades has pushed tens of thousands of American students to study Mandarin. But many who learn ...

Western businesses have been trying to “get inside” the vast Chinese market since the days of Marco Polo – it’s one of the top prizes of global commerce, and one that continues to inspire a frenzy of ...

Spanish remains the language most frequently spoken by English-learners in U.S. schools by a wide margin, with roughly 76 percent of the nation’s 5 million English-learners speaking Spanish, but the ...

North Korean smugglers are rushing to learn Chinese after losing money in disputes with Chinese partners, a source told Daily ...