Only 10 percent of native-born Americans speak a language other than English according to the 2010 Census. In a sharp contrast, 53 percent of Europeans have mastered a second language. Startalk, a ...

Registration is open now for 30 spots in the 2025 STARTALK Chinese language learning program, presented by the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of World Languages and Literatures. The ...

When President Obama welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House on Wednesday, he was joined by a group of students from Washington, D.C.'s Yu Ying Public Charter School. It's a ...

The Chinese World Language Program was first implemented in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in 1999, starting with only 3 schools. The program has since grown to 45 schools (24 elementary and middle ...

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 ...

All of which should beg the question for anyone thinking about their career: Should you start learning Chinese? It sure wouldn’t hurt. In a lousy domestic job market, going East — and to China in ...

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, students around the world are increasingly interested in learning Chinese. Some are drawn by the pull of a foreign culture or the challenges of a new language; ...

Australians are too "lazy" to learn Chinese language and it could harm the nation's economic future, a leading languages expert said on Tuesday. Jane Orton, former director of the University of ...