Miradie Tchekpo biggest dream has come true: She has landed a job as an interpreter working for a Chinese trading company in her home country of Benin. "In middle school, I watched Chinese TV channels ...

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 ...

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 ...

China has expanded its country-wide Wikipedia ban to include all non-Chinese languages versions of the website. The full Wikipedia ban comes on the cusp of the Tiananmen Square protests' 30-year ...

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 ...

Multilingualism is considered by the United Nations as a key to accomplish its aims and purposes and to improve communication and understanding among peoples. 14 May 2018 - A panel discussion on ...

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 ...

FILE - In this March 20, 2019, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, meets with Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. An intensive summer ...