KUALA LUMPUR (The Straits Times): Former bank officer Sri Devi Mani, 41, grew up in Selangor speaking her mother tongue Tamil, and now uses the language to create lessons for her Mandarin tuition ...

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Students at Station Middle School eagerly showed their cultural understanding of China, greeting a Chinese diplomat who recently visited the Barrington school with Chinese welcome songs and the ...

For nearly an hour, no one speaks a word of English in this first-grade math class. Not the teacher, Ying Ying Wu, who talks energetically in Mandarin’s songlike tones. Not the students — 6- and ...

A PRIMARY school believes Mandarin is the language children need to learn to get on in life and is teaching it to pupils from the age of five. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

The government says more Mandarin speakers will help boost the economy Mandarin in English schools will get a £10m boost, and 5,000 more pupils will learn it by 2020, George Osborne has said on a ...

The three-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the UAE is set to strengthen the bilateral relations between the two nations, expand business opportunities and tourism, which all will help ...

URUMQI: Teaching Mandarin to students in the remote Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region was helping the fight against terrorism, chairman of the autonomous region Nur Bekri said. "Terrorists from ...

Mandarin in English schools will get a £10m boost, and 5,000 more pupils will learn it by 2020, George Osborne has said on a visit to China. The cash will be used to recruit and train teachers to ...