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The Confucius Institute at Purdue will offer Basic Mandarin Chinese this fall as a six-week, noncredit course. The highly interactive course, focusing on spoken Chinese, will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 ...

Americans are flocking to Chinese app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, as a potential US TikTok ban looms. Some of them are learning Mandarin in an attempt to bridge the language divide on the app.

The numbers of Americans learning Mandarin Chinese has declined dramatically, but one elementary school in Washington DC is seeing more demand for Chinese language education than ever. Sponsor Message ...

The threat of TikTok going dark in the US appears to have compelled some Americans to start learning Mandarin as they look to communicate on a rival Chinese app. Many Americans are joining Xiaohongshu ...

STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China - as our team has been doing - you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of Chinese citizens have been educated in the United States.