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This fall at East Light Academy, a Mandarin language immersion school, teachers in pre-kindergarten through first grade will speak only Mandarin to their students for most of the day. "It's like ...
Ethnic Mongolians staged protests in northern China this week over Beijing’s new policy to gradually replace their native language with Mandarin in several school subjects. The policy will affect ...
Chinese banks work to ensure they can effectively translate complex jargon into their limited-English-proficiency customers' native language. Abacus Federal Savings Bank in New York's Chinatown still ...
While it is well established that non-native speakers differ from native speakers in their perception and/or production of Mandarin lexical tones, empirical studies focusing on non-native learners are ...
In the latest episode of "Moon Knight," Ethan Hawke has a conversation in Mandarin. Fans who are native Mandarin speakers have criticized the scene for "butchering" the language. Insider has ...
When it comes to learning a language, the left side of the brain has traditionally been considered the hub of language processing. But new research shows the right brain plays a critical early role in ...