In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, using intracranial recordings, researchers investigated the neural basis of lexical tone production in native Mandarin speakers. They ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A background in music helps speakers learn a tonal language, such as Mandarin, a new University at Buffalo study suggests. People with musical training — whether instrumental or vocal ...

Three students from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff participated in a virtual study-abroad course that focused on learning the Mandarin language. The 14-week course was organized by the China ...

The study of Chinese as a foreign language has become one of the world’s largest language learning markets in just 10 years of exponential growth. Kick-started in 2004 by the launch of the Confucius ...

When Marvin Ho co-founded a Chinese language school in Taiwan in 1957, his only students were a handful of Western missionaries. Five decades later, it’s a different story. Ho’s classrooms are packed ...

Rachel Wallace pictured in June 2019 at the Forbidden City in Beijing. In the fall of 2018, Rachel Wallace — then a sophomore at Summit High School — decided on a whim to learn Mandarin Chinese. At ...