Mandarin's entry into public schools is the latest sign of growing ties between Saudi Arabia and China — Fayez Nureldine With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan ...

A new opportunity for people to learn Mandarin Chinese in Wake County is all because of a partnership between the United States and Taiwan. The North Carolina Raleigh Taiwan Center for Mandarin ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

This research was conducted with Simon Jerome Han as lead author. Piers Kelly receives funding from an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Charles Kemp's work on this project was supported by an ARC Future ...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning ...

RIYADH-With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning the language at ...