Kelly Chuang, standing, teaches Mandarin to Crystal Huang at Chinese School of San Marino on April 1. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang ...

On the day Christopher Tirone turned 12, his classmates at Candlewood Middle School in Dix Hills sang him the Happy Birthday song in Chinese. Christopher and the other sixth-graders in his class in ...

Mandarin Chinese teacher Janet Lin leads a class at the Westwood School. Thomas Cheatham had planned to study Latin during his sophomore year at Hebron High School. But when he learned that the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

Eddie Conger (center), principal at Thomas Jefferson High School, says learning Mandarin Chinese prepares students for the world economy of the future. These 10 students will be traveling to Hainan ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. The World Language Steering Committee proposed a plan to add a Mandarin Chinese course at Wilton High School during Monday night ...

Orange Unified School District has decided to push forward with its popular elementary-school program that teaches children Mandarin Chinese. The district this school year introduced the Mandarin Dual ...

It’s Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes, three salarymen split from the ...

A new slate of Mandarin-language classes might be calling your name. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is nearly ready to open up a variety of Chinese language and culture courses to the public, ...

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 ...